For our contemporaries, paganism is an anthology of myths, a fairyland created by the imagination of an ancient man, religious romance, or a world of refined aesthetics and art, which still continues to inspire artists and poets. But for the holy fathers, Christian apologists and mystics, paganism was a spiritual catastrophe of humanity, the loss of the true God and the worship of demonic forces that manifested themselves under the names and masks of pagan deities. It was a world of black destructive energy, a region of darkness and spiritual madness, where the light of the divine Logos did not penetrate. For Christians, pagan temples were not archaeological museums, with art galleries, with a talisman fair, but a gloomy dwelling of satanic forces, the presence of spiritual vampires who lived in idols as in their stone bodies, accepting sacrifices and worship from people. Publisher: ThessalonikiSource: