A common Christian attack on all sorts of pagans is that we don’t all know our exact ancestry. Celtic identity, German identity, Slavic identity, they say these are products of post Christian pan-nationalisms that mostly go back to the 19th century. I have even seen one argue that worshiping “Scandinavian gods” as someone of continental Germanic or English origin makes no sense. What do Wotan or Woden have to do with Odin, comparitive mythology and etymology be damned. Because all of this is so confusing, you should remain a Christian. Then they try to finish reeling you in by attacking reconstruction in general as a pointless endeavor. This is very different from the older Christian approach to heathens. In the past, all “pagans” of any race were considered to be following more or less the same system and the Christians almost always used Roman gods as a quick way to classify pagan gods. I have read a 17th century Jesuit’s account of Andean religion in Peru(which is still around as a syncretic folk religion today) and he wrote that it was for the most part the same as the “errors” of the Romans and Egyptians already known to the Church. I paraphrase; “None would be surprised at their gods, fantastic tales, and superstitions that know the errors of our ancestors, and of the famous nations of Rome and Egypt.” He then gives an account of myths and folk beliefs of those isolated subjects of Spain.