>people call the Japanese Tenno Emperor, despite him having nothing to do with European Monarchs claiming the prestige of being a Caesar, he is actually more like equivalent of a Pope for Shintoism

>people apply the term paganism to religions other than indo-european paganism, despite these religions having no common origin

>hinduism for some reason isn‘t regarded as paganism for some strange reason

>confucianism is regarded as a religion, but not ideologies like humanism, which is just christian values without the supernatural or belief in the irrational 

>Pagans for some reason are eternally stuck at either being christians with more equality bullshit and a different coat of paint (left-wing pagans) or busy with the impossible task to reconstruct a religion with not enough material to work with (right-wing pagans), no one trusts a sort of pagan Bishop to settle the reconstructionist problem by creating new meaning through his authority and will (seriously? There is no one?)

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>>hinduism for some reason isn‘t regarded as paganism for some strange reason

People call Hindus pagans all the time, especially Muzzies. Pagan = Not Abrahamic

>>14956343 (OP)

>hinduism for some reason isn‘t regarded as paganism for some strange reason

That's just because its a living religion and calling it Pagan would be politically incorrect

>confucianism is regarded as a religion, but not ideologies like humanism, which is just christian values without the supernatural or belief in the irrational

Confucianism certainly straddles the line between religion and philosophy, but it prescribes rituals, including ancestor veneration

>>14956343 (OP)

that's a cute girl, what's her name?

天皇 = Heavenly sovereign or Emperor in English.

Paganism = any religion with multiple folk deities.

Lots of people consider Hinduism paganism.

Confucianism has Heaven worship and 上帝 as central concepts.

Basic belief of most paganism is spirit worship, which precludes any authority from mortal beings.





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>>14956343 (OP)

People also translate Huángdì to Emperor for China because its easier than having to explain the 5 emperors and 3 sovereigns myth and why Qin chose to make a name that invokes it to note he's better than a king.

Interesting the Huángdì hanzi is also found in Japanese and means the same thing (but read as kotei) but the Japanese Emperor doesn't use it as his title

>>14956343 (OP)

That's called ethnocentrism, dumbass.

>>14956343 (OP)

Emperor comes from the Latin Imperator meaning (he) who rules, governs, commands. The Roman Kings had imperium as did the consuls and Caesars. The term was used for anyone who held power.

>>14956343 (OP)

But right-wing paganism is also just christianity with a different coat of paint. Most odinist larpers just follow regular christian conservative values, but with a different aesthetic and some shallow "warrior ethics" nonsense.

>Paganism = any religion with multiple folk deities.

It's still applied to monotheistic faiths. The original meaning died off ages ago.

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