(August 17, 2023 at 1:16 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Paganism seems to me to refer to all practices that posits the existence of some interventionist supernatural forces, but which do not accept the supremacy of the doctrines of dominant monotheistic imperial religion or their kin in things pertaining to these supernatural forces.
There is by definition no connection between the supernatural and the natural, even if the former advertises itself as the veneration of the latter.
Some varieties of paganism don’t require interventionist supernatural forces, but view the non-natural world as existing side-by-side with the natural one (the pages of a book analogy). In these views, supernatural forces are not interventionist, but immanent.
Boru
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