Premodern religions are identical in how they were chiefly organized around obtaining spiritual power and avoiding the wrath of unpredictable deities. This is the case with how a guy in 1300 AD understands Christ and how a guy in 600 BC understands Zeus. The main way in which modern people, including Neopagans and E-Christians, differ from their ancestors is that they either don't take these threats so seriously or not to such an extent. Premodern people literally attributed divine power to everything, whether their own diseases, blessing crops for a good harvest, or their weapons to better kill others.