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I dont know that anyone's religion is exactly a choice. I think you have to believe in what makes sense and is logical to you, while taking into account social and cultural pressures exerted by organised religions and cults of belief.
For me, I dont have a strong understanding of paganism, but I have always understood it to be a religion that values nature and imbues plantlife and the earth itself with great value and sentience. For myself, I view "nature" as frightening, alien, barren and in term of higher meaning, meaningless. Wide open spaces make me feel vulnerable, the sea strikes me as violent and ugly, the stars often make me feel empty due to their frightening smallness and short lifespan. All wild animals and domestic animals make me nervous, I dislike tree's, fields, woods, heathland, and so on. I like cities, concrete on every side of you hemming you in making you safe and protected.
Which while this is, I am aware, strange to most people, obviously makes me disinclined to follow a religion which I see as giving undue value to nature - which I think it does not have. Whether my feelings come from an untrue understanding of Pagan religions (and I also though that Pagan was a word used to describe almost all non-Christian religions by the early church - so technically believe in the Ancient Roman Gods, Egyptian Gods, Wicca, Norse mythology, or anything else could be described as paganism, but I took my understanding from what I know of British paganism) or from an unnatural and unhealthy dislike of the non-human world, I cant say. But that is why I am not a pagan, which isnt the same question, I know.
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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."
The Gospel of Thomas
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