[kellychaos]

Pagan originally applied to mountain dwelling people on the outskirts who hadn't converted to the monotheistic God of choice and who tended to worship Nature and the sacred female. It came to be regarded as an hillbilly insult after years of the Roman Catholic smear campaign to cast such religions into obscurity and persecute the remaining heretics (Little known fact: "heretics" root comes from the Jewish word for "choice" as in I choose not to believe in Christianity). Wicka is a prime example of that type of religion that still endures in present times.