Nevertheless, their conception and significance stems from a pre-Christian faith which manifests direct ties with the art of the Iron Age in both symbolic and decorative elements. Mud-slinging between religious factions is, of course, historically unprecedented. Today friction has been stirred anew by the possibility of changes to Lithuania's religious laws. For their part, today's pagans resent the church's suggestion that their religion is not traditional. Alisauskas claims that nowadays paganism is entirely reconstructed and therefore not authentic.
Nobody can say what real paganism is.
It is purely scientific investigation. We don't have any paganism in Lithuania, only romantics, some ideas. Even more inflammatory are his comments regarding the faith of modern day pagans. Today don't even see themselves as a religious movement. The pagans are also prone to barring none when speaking of the Catholics.