I was reading post talking about pagans and whether or not it was a defensive term I consider myself a pagan I don't find a defensive what I found fensive is when they said that pagans have no belief system of their own while I certainly do
I mean I think the point they were making is that historically speaking, 'Paganism' began as a pejorative catch-all term made up by Christians for
all non-christian religions- the term applied equally to Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Celtic, basically
any non-monotheistic religion and it was intentionally derogatory and labelled a vast number of different faiths and beliefs as the same, 'wrong' thing- it was the religious equivalent of calling someone an ill-bred peasant.
This is of course distinct from modern Neo-paganism, which is it's own thing, that happens to have the same name.