Varg Vikernes

To live like we are supposed to, we need to listen to our blood, so to speak. Our paganism is in our blood, and to be able to create a positive and meaningful civilization in the future, on the ruins of the 'Sodom and Gomorrah' we live in today, we need to live in accordance with our blood.

Norwegian Musician

Liz Williams

Contemporary paganism gives me a subjective lens through which the world in which I live can be interpreted on an aesthetic and an ethical basis. I'm interested in narrative, myth, and story, in folklore and the way we connect to the turning of the seasons and the natural world.

British Author

Augustus Sol Invictus

Ninety-nine percent of the things that seem weird in my life can be answered with my religion. Paganism is mostly about nature-worship. It's about being in harmony with your environment and bringing the world of spirit and world of man together. It's about balance.

American Activist

Tariq Ali

Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.

Pakistani Historian

Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated.

Desiderius Erasmus

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Dutch Philosopher

Augustus Hare

The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

English Writer

David Hare

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

English Playwright

E. M. Forster

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

English Novelist

Aleister Crowley

Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.

English Critic

Relates to religions practiced before Christianity, Islam, or other major current religions fully emerged.

Historical Context

Paganism isn't 'primitive'; ancient societies with these beliefs were complex and sophisticated.

Not Primitive

Use respectfully; 'paganism' may seem dismissive. Some prefer 'polytheistic' or the name of the specific religion.

Cultural Sensitivity

Modern paganism involves current spiritual practices that draw from ancient traditions

Contemporary Beliefs

There's no single 'paganism' but many versions, including Wicca, Druidism, and Heathenry, each with unique beliefs.

Diverse Practices

Modern paganism often emphasizes the sacredness of nature and ecological awareness.

Nature Focused

 and as the legend goes, in 987, the Rus prince Vladamir I decided it was time to abandon Slavic paganism, and sent emissaries to explore neighboring faiths. Put off by Islam's prohibition on alcohol and Judaism's expulsion from its holy land,