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'''''On Being A Pagan''''' is a 1981 book by [[Alain de Benoist]].

== Publisher description ==
"In this small masterpiece, the great French thinker Alain de Benoist claims that only the pagan deities of ancient Europe offer a spiritual recourse to the present religious malaise. The guilt, the fear, the narrow petty-bourgeois obsession with well-being, and the self-loathing love of the Other that has left Western man defenseless before the destructive behaviors of our nihilist age derive from the alien belief system that Christianity introduced to the West. They are not part of the pagan spirit that lives still in the [[Rig Veda]], the [[Iliad]], or the [[Edda]]. Benoist helps us rediscover these ancient wellsprings and the fonts from which future greatnesses may again flow. But let the reader be warned, his ''On Being a Pagan'' proposes no folkloric or [[New Age]] "return to the past," but rather a [[Nietzschean]] recurrence in which the future bears all the promise of our distant originsand thus of another great beginning."

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