At minimum, paganism should be the exception, not the norm that it seems in BM today. See a pagan? Destroy him however you can. Stab. Fine. Ban. War. Protest. Scheme to remove from power. I can see reasons for the occasional pagan, but those rare pagans should be constantly berated to either found their faith into a formal religion or join a formal religion. Being a pagan is the religious equivalent of being a rogue, in that you are without spiritual leadership and hierarchy, which is the properly ordained social structure.
We have enough problems stamping out the atheist, at least the pagans have SOME sort of belief.
There is actually no reason a pagan system can't have some sort of spiritual leadership and hierarchy. The standard definition of a Pagan is
A person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions.
It really hangs on the definition of a "main" world religion. It was my understanding that in game pagans worship under a system whose membership and leadership is too insignificant to really bother with identifying.
