Pagan (was What's wrong with "Merry Christmas"?

[susanmcgee48176]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at ...> wrote:
>
> As I understand it the term 'pagan' was orginally a person who was a 
> peasant, a person living in a rural area outside of Rome. As time 
went 
> on it came to be many other things related to religion, as others 
here 
> have mentioned. 
> 
> Tonks_op
>

Anyone really interested in this subject can check out the wikipedia 
articles on paganism, neopaganism, or wicca....or the summaries on 
beliefnet.org (also covers all other religions

Susan