[Sca-cooks] Paganism was RE: A new twist!

[Ron Carnegie]

At 06:29 PM 12/17/02 -0500, you wrote:
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>In a message dated 12/17/02 5:56:52 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>lilinah at earthlink.net writes:
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> > And many of these Paganisms continue to exist, such as
> > Hinduism.
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>Hate to chime in and correct people but Hinduism is technically not a pagan
>religion. The definition of paganism is a belief system which has multiple,
>INDEPENDENT gods, such as the Greeks, Romans, Sumerians, etc etc. Hinduism
>believes that there are multiple deities, but they are all dependent or a
>part of one Supreme Essence or existance.


     I am curious who defines Paganism as having to be
polytheism?  According to the OED it simply means non-judeo christian.  No
mention at all to a number of gods.


cheers,
Ranald