-Caveat Lector- Several questions. If pagans were the larger organized group, why didn't the pagan community just absorb the smaller group of Christians? Why was there so much persecution of the pagans by Constantine if paganism was what was favored? Is paganism making a comeback thru the gradual transition of Christmas to Winter Holidays, as they are celebrated in the atheistic Soviet Union? Why no balance in the article by using scholarship from the Catholic Encyclopedia on this topic? In any reasonable discussion, Catholics would speak for Catholic beliefs and pagans should speak for pagan beliefs.
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