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Found this quote on Facebook from God in the Dock by CS Lewis. Thought it was interesting. If I’ve got it right, CS Lewis says he has more in common with pagans than he has with your average de-churched person:

When grave persons express their fear that England is relapsing into Paganism, I am tempted to reply, ‘Would that she were.’ For I do not think it at all likely that we shall ... ever see Parliament opened by the slaughtering of a garlanded white bull in the House of Lords or Cabinet Ministers leaving sandwiches in Hyde Park as an offering for the Dryads. If such a state of affairs came about, then the Christian apologist would have something to work on. For a Pagan, as history shows, is a man eminently convertible to Christianity. He is essentially the pre-Christian, or sub-Christian, religious man. The post-Christian man of our day differs from him as much as a divorcée differs from a virgin. The Christian and the Pagan have much more in common with one another than either has with the writers of the New Statesman; and those writers would of course agree with me.

Etymologically speaking though what does Pagan mean? I know what it has come to mean and that is someone who does not follow Christian teachings.

In its truest sense I believe it means “of the country” or “of the earth” and in this case is there not a little of the pagan left in in us, as we follow the path we see before us a christians and especially ones who have an affinity for the world around us, as described in many of the posts and medititations on this site