Motivations For Paganism

The term paganism can refer to nature/animist religions, ranging from variations of pantheism to a more spiritualistic version of panpsychism, and it can also refer to general non-Christian religions, which would in a broader sense include Islam and also philosophies that were adhered to before the days of Jesus.  Like any worldview, paganism can be believed or practiced for a variety of reasons, but in this case, none of them are valid.  Either the concepts are outright false, as they contradict logical axioms or some other truth (like in the case of pluralistic or pantheistic paganism), or they cannot be proven, or even evidentially supported, making pagans guilty of idiotic assumptions at best and consciously charging into emotionalism at worst.

They might long to feel connected to something larger than themselves by aligning with traditional metaphysics and religions of their homeland, looking to assumptions and social norms/approval instead of the necessary laws of logic that transcend all else to fulfill this desire.  They might love nature, a subjective and thus irrelevant state of mind, confusing a material world for an animistic one--this could be true, but it is neither logically necessary nor evidentially likely, and either way, there is still an uncaused cause separate from nature and any lesser, created spirits like those assigned to different environments in some paganism.  Irrationality is inherent in any of these motivations and beliefs, even as love of nature is neither irrational nor unbiblical in itself.  It is the emotionalism or assumptions that are asinine.

Another potential motivation for paganism is emotionalistic disdain for Christianity, almost inevitably on the basis of misunderstandings--that it is metaphysically (logically) impossible, that it is epistemologically without evidence, that it teaches cruelty is righteous, that it teaches any kind of gender complementarianism, that it encourages environmental exploitation, and so on.  For some pagans, this might not even be about rejecting a supposedly false or oppressive religion, but merely about being different from what is more mainstream, though true Christianity is so different from its mainstream distortions that they scarcely resemble each other (its real doctrines of epistemology, morality, hell, love, sexuality, and far more are almost unheard of among theological conservatives and liberals alike).

Perhaps related to the misunderstanding that Christianity is sexist against women, which would by necessity also entail sexism against men even if this goes unacknowledged, pagans might even be responding to misogyny with misandry given how female-centric some kinds of paganism are.  If so, they would be hypocrites even with regard for their own supposed moral beliefs.  Whether it is misandry rooted in the neglect of how both men and women have a role in procreation, stereotypes that slander men or deny their full humanity, or special reverence for women that is withheld from men, pagans could, whether or not it is even consistent with their other tenets, be extremely sexist against either men or women.

Paganism of course has no evidence in its favor aside from these aforementioned delusions of pagans even where some of its aspects are logically possible.  Yes, certain versions of it are logically possible: since they do not contradict axioms or the existence of an uncaused cause, they could have been true even if they are not. However, Christianity is not only fully consistent with all necessary truths of reason, including in ways that are almost universally undiscovered, but it also has immense amounts of historical evidence in its favor.  No form of paganism does, from vague nature religions to animistic philosophies.  Pluralistic spiritualism is false in any case because contradictory beliefs cannot be valid all at once, rendering the most inclusive types of paganism logically impossible by default.  The rest often neglect how the uncaused cause is the deity that could deserve worship, whatever its moral nature.