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They don't. Paganism doesn't exist. 100% of "Pagans" are divided into two camps, people who hate Christianity because asdffgh and Atheists who have tacitly admitted that their religious positions are hollow and boring and yearn for something deeper, but don't have the rocks to actually adopt a real religion. Instead they surround themselves with symbols of something dead--as their faith is dead--and try to convince themselves that these dead symbols, for aligning with their nonexistent faith, actually herald a sort of divine necromancy--the idea that they can spawn into existence a religion that fits the contours of their mutilated souls instead of having to take the plunge of actual faith and believe in something that requires transformation.
In all cases the Paganism isn't actually real or the point. Nobody prays to Odin expecting to be heard, they do it to try and spite the Christian God, or to worship themselves through an acceptably abstracted proxy. As you can see this sort of thing has not been working out for them at all. The high-point of "Heathenism" was like ten years ago, coinciding with peak Reddit atheism to create this era of slop-religion with no actual content except for narcissistic political posturing.
Perhaps some very narrow sliver of people possess some actual connection to Pre-Christianity in the form of folk traditions or even familial traditions, but much as a bunch of Mexicans becoming "white supremacists" do not actually become Aryan, a bunch of deracinated urbanites from the West whose entire society is metaphysically Christian cannot simply "become" pagans. Paganism in its time was not simply a sports Jersey you wore to signal which team you were on, it was an entire metaphysical worldview, a broad set of philosophic axioms without which it does not actually exist, and neither you nor anyone else today holds to those.