Was ancient Egypt “PAGAN” in terms of its RELIGION?
Pagans are defined well in this extract from Wikipaedia. The word comes from Latin and means a country person i.e. non sophisticated person. As the Egyptians predated the Romans by thousands of years the word “pagan” could not be applied to their religion, which by the way, was quite sophisticated. Christians, Jews and Muslims believe in only one god; but also believe in angels who are lesser spirits. Is this much different to the ancients and modern polytheists who believed in a principal god with lots of lesser god beneath? WIKIPAEDIA Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning “country dweller, rustic”) is a word used to refer to various religions and religious beliefs from across the world. It is a term which, from a Western perspective, has modern connotations of spiritualist, animistic or shamanic practices or beliefs of any folk religion, and of historical and contemporary polytheistic religions in particular. The term can be defined broadly, to encompass the faith traditions outside
