Succinct summation of what it pagan with notes

Paganism is the humans religious response to their environment.
Where Abrahamic faiths draw meaning from holy books, Paganism draws meaning from the world.

*Implicit in this is a recognition of mans helplessness, his inability, to affect many of the forces that surround and affect him, even through heroic effort. But man may come to understand these forces in a way that transcends, circumvents, and overcomes, the rational.