http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Fri, 9 May 2008 13:34:16 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2002/08/23/083305.php#comment-716728 If by traditional, you mean the Latin definition, you'd be correct. However, since Mr. Kagan wrote in English, and as his book makes abundantly clear he was referring to the pre-Christian Western ethos when he referred to Pagan Ethos, you're wrong. You'd be amazed what 2,000 years can do to a word's meaning. Just look what happened to hacker over 30 years. 716728@blogcritics.org Fri, 9 May 2008 13:34:16 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2002/08/23/083305.php#comment-716553 Wow, old blog, but pagan does not mean someone who is not a christian or jew. You have to first properly define the term before you criticize its use. The traditional meaning of pagan is "country", as in simple country person... 716553@blogcritics.org Thu, 8 May 2008 18:35:36 EDT