Edited sentence: Due to the impact these elements have on our lives Pagans respect and celebrate these elements.Paganism is based on folk law and tradition, mostly passed on verbally.Paganism is often misunderstood as a religion, but it is not a religion in the sense that traditional Paganism does not acknowledge a God, Goddess or Deities, however, it is a set of beliefs, values, and attitudes that somebody lives by.The history of Paganism got very mixed up with Greek Mythology and Egyptian Gods until we ended up with a tangled mess that not many understand and many misunderstand as religion.The misconception you have that Paganism is a religion springs from the fact that Pagans recognise the forces such as wind, sunshine, rain (earth, air , fire, water) etc.Then some threads of paganism took this concept further and gave these elements identities in the form of deities or gods and goddesses.They also recognised that these elements had some humanistic properties.Types of Paganism can be described as Religious when you take them into aspects such as Wicca or a Druidism or threads of Paganism that worship gods, goddesses and deities, but the core of Paganism is based on the way of the land - responding to your environment and understanding how nature affects your life, emotions and day to day wellbeing