Original sentence: ), whereas urban areas are now more secularized., the bible belt or red state within the U.As mentioned previously, the post-Christian usage of "pagan" came to mean rural folk holding to pre-Christian polytheistic beliefs in the face of the new, and predominantly urban, Christianized Roman society.Ironically, it is now the rural peoples of Western culture who are more typically aligned with Christian beliefs (e
Edited sentence: As mentioned previously, pagan began as a derogatory term for the rural peoples holding to conservative beliefs and through evolved colloqialism to pre-Christian/ non-Christian beliefs specifically held in the face of the new and predominantly urban Christianized Roman society.In a temporal twist of faith, the rural peoples of our western culture continue to hold the conservative traditional values (as advocated by the bible belt or red state) but these rural conservatives now face off against the post-religious secularized urban areas of the United States.While the term pagan is now firmly entrenched with the concept of pre-Christian shamanism rather than as "a rural person holding to conservative traditional beliefs and values", the rural conservative Christians of the 21st century could be argued as mirroring the same cultural traits as the pagans of the first and second millenia