i think because it is rootless and completely disconnected from anything that came before it that it's largely whatever it's practitioners want it to be

the two flavors seem to be

"i hate my dad"

and

"i hate my mom"

historically speaking pagans practiced child sacrifice, gods like zeus fucked boys while in the form of eagles, the meta was going to be broken for any religion that was not like this and help it spread like wildfire

Pagan is just a label for "non-Christian." It's the same problem I have with "White;" you're being needlessly imprecise with your language because you don't even have a shallow understanding.