Of course they had signity. Dignity is one of the most fundamental human needs. Probably they had a different notion of what dignity is.
All people have the potential to have dignity. Love people with care and respect. Every person matters.
Not everyone who was not Christian was tortured. Jews were not usually tortured, though they were often abused. Muslims were also not usually tortured. There were times when pagans were threatened with torture or death, but these were usually during times when there were wars going on in which one side was Christian and the other pagan. But not all pagans were tortured. The Church banned torture on several occasions.
The Vikings originally had their own Gods, however, later they did alter to the Christian religion and became pagans, christians. They also adopted the Roman alphabet.
----------------------- Julian the Apostate was Roman Emperor from 361 to 363 CE, after a dynasty of disreputable Christian emperors. He was opposed to persecution on religious grounds and took action to prevent the further persecution of pagans, but did not persecute Christians.
The roman emperor in 394 was Theodosius I who banned and persecuted anything which was not Christian. The Olympics, long with all pagan temples were either banned or destroyed and the pagans persecuted.
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For not being Christian. Christians arent exactly angry at pagans. We just try to convert them.
Whatever they want to. Pagans don't celebrate Christmas because it's a Christian holiday.As with anyone, anything they wish
People who have both Christian and Wiccan beliefs? There are also a goodly number of Pagans (not Wiccans) who have strong Christian overtones.
The "virtuous pagans" was a title applied by Dante in his Divine Comedy to the Pagans who did not convert to Christianity but still lived ethical lives according to Christian standards (not stealing, killing, etc).
It means that Ireland was primarily inhabited by the Druids who were pagans and did not believe in the Christian God. St. Patrick preached to them and brought them to Christianity.
Well, heaven is a Christian concept. Most Pagans believe in some type of reincarnation. Wiccans usually believe that we go to the summerland when we die and then get reincarnated until we live a life good enough to stay in the summerland.
Try "The Pagan Federation" (Google it) which is the largest in Europe (and possibly the world). They even have many members who describe themselves as "Christian Pagans".
Paganism is not a nationality, to best describe it in simple terms, it is a classification of some types of religious or spiritual beliefs. Pagans are everywhere, they generally believe in spirits, though not necessarily the Christian spirits. That being said, Pagans can also be Christians. Pagans also practice herbalism or other occult arts.
Missionaries from the Christian part of Europe traveled to those countries to convert the pagans.
It is not impossible for a pagan to be monotheistic but it is very uncommon. Pagans generally believe in many Gods and Goddesses. Even if they decide to focus on only one they do not do this to the exclusion of others. Pagans are generally either polytheistic or pantheistic.
The word Pagan in a derogatory Christian term for anything that is not a version of Christianity. Some fervent adherents to any dogma believe that any who do not agree with their religious views are pagans. It is most commonly applied to the polytheistic religions of the Ancient world. Now that the lecture is over, the original inhabitants of the city of Byzantium were 'pagans', but the civilization known today as the Byzantine Empire is not. The Emperor Constantine, who formed it (it was the Eastern part of the Roman Empire), was a Christian, and the Empire would be predominantly and primarily Orthodox Christian.
Prior to the introduction of Islam, Muhammad and his immediate family were pagans, but he had a Christian cousin.