Indeed. The film can be read as pro or anti pagan, or pro or anti Christian.

… Summerisle, responding with loud protestations and condemnations. Unaware that he is being played, Howie’s staunch Christianity in comparison with Summerisle’s just as staunch paganism provides us with an interesting question: who is right?
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Indeed. The film can be read as pro or anti pagan, or pro or anti Christian. Or indeed as a damning condemnation of absolute religious beliefs in all their forms.
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