The word “pagan” is derived from the Latin pāgānus which originally just meant “villager,” “rustic,” or “country dweller.”

It became to be used in the way modern urbanites have referred to “country bumpkins” or “hillbillies” for rural people who, in their eyes, lacked refinement and education.

In the early days of the Christian turnover in Rome, then as now, it was the urban centers where the new ideology took hold. The people of the countryside who were not enrolled in the city universities, involved in centralized governmental institutions, or hobnobbing in elitist circles where out-of-fashion opinions are cause for social ostracization, simply got on with life as they knew it. They carried on local traditions, continued to venerate local holy sites, kept ancestral altars, told the old stories...

- A European Tribal Worldview Under Attack by CE

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