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I completely agree that universalist, proselytising religion is an imperialist tool. I further agree that this kind of religion has warped the way people think about religion as such.
These religions are merely constructs of the power-hungry used to force people into fake identities and therefore a kind of madness. They aren't in alignment with the divine, with nature, with our wellbeing. So why accept them? Their rejection is obviously necessary.

If your point was merely that paganism is a catchall term that covers many different worldviews, including some contradictory ones, then yeah. But the term is a convenient if troubled shorthand. Nobody is saying we should fit traditional religions into the framework of the modern understanding of religion. We're saying we should embrace the traditional framework as well, i.e. particularism and nationalism.