Why do people thing Paganism is evil or devil worshiping?
The truest, most complete answer to that is to be found in religious history. To get all of the details you’ll need to do some research, but here goes! It is known that the Catholic church launched a smear campaign long ago against anything non-Christian in the interest of gaining power. The smear campaign sought to change the reputation of Mary Magdalene, demonize women (since pagans revered them because of their ability to give life like the land can give life), and cast pagan and other religions as evil (even if they believe in goodness and morality). Other aspects of that smear campaign include turning harmless symbols into symbols of satan (such as the pentagram or pentacle, which represents the goddess Venus, and thus truly good things, not evil ones). Every religion and belief system has a few members who are bad examples of that religion or belief system. You brought up a good point when you mentioned that. 🙂 Those “bad examples” do not likely represent most of the believers o
