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 == Classical antiquity == 

 There are so many things wrong with the section on Classical antiquity (which I separated out from the History section) that I don't even know how to start discussing it. But since I tagged it for factual accuracy, I wanted to open the discussion here. First of all, there's no such thing as ""Classical paganism"" except from the later point of view of Christianity; Christian polemic lumped various religions practiced in ancient Greece and Rome together as ""paganism,"" but the religious practices of classical Athens, for instance, are a world apart from the traditional Roman religion (sometimes called the ""religion of Numa"") that was ""revived"" and innovated upon by Augustus, giving rise to Imperial cult. There seems to be confusion in this section between ""civil religion"" and ""state religion"" or ""public religion."" Will try to help, but I'm not sure where to start.   "