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I heard that Pagan origionally meant "country" - referring to the places where the earth religions were slower to die out in favor of Christianity. Either way, though, its' modern common useage is as a general term for any sort of reconstructionist/indiginous earth religion, like Wicca (reconstructionist) or Native American Shamanism (indiginous). There was a drive before the 2004 census for all the followers of such religions to enter "pagan" on the form in order to get a reasonably accurate count of the people in that community, so it's definitely an operational definition.
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I figure I should run in here and stomp on the inaccuracies in the question, though it is older as far as questions go.
First, to answer your question, I am not pagan. This is because I am a christian. Pagan is the general word for any non-christian. It is NOT a religion. There aren't any belief systems attached with paganism. It's strictly a word describing non-christians which may include everything from muslims and buddhists to Wiccans and Satanists.
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