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Originally Posted by Kalevi
This may have got to do with Protestantism - which was a puristic movement trying to approach the roots of Christianity as a monotheistic religion and getting rid of it's Pagan heritage.
I often wonder why there seems to be the most interest in neo-Paganism and other kinds of alternate spirituality in Protestant countries among all. Is it because Protestantism abandoned the Pagan elements of Catholicism and left the people a Middle-Eastern religion unfit for their mentality and culture? Or is it just a reaction of abolishing the local, communal elements (and people's roots) in the benefit of a universal religion.
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Yes, I think when people looked around their bare bones churches and listened yet again to the stories of a vengeful foreign people who lived long ago in a faraway desert it drove them toward their remaining pagan traditions, or to invent new "ancient" traditions.
