December 2019 – Page 2 – NaturalPagans

More on Community Transition

December 7, 2019 Mark Green Atheopaganism, Opinion, Pagan Community

Recently, I wrote an optimistic piece about the evolution of the Pagan movement. Some insightful commenters were not so sanguine as I, and I’d like to address their contentions here. Their arguments fell into several general buckets: The Internet is not a substitute for in-person contact and relationships. Rigid ideologies and fundamentalism are tearing us … Continue reading More on Community Transition

The Pagan Community in Transition

December 3, 2019 Mark Green Atheopaganism, Pagan Community

Once upon a time, there was a deeply oppressed minority whose very existence was illegal: the gay community. And though we* are far from winning the fight for full equality for LGBTQ folks, it is fair to say that much progress has been made, and the LGBTQ community has made transitions as a result. For … Continue reading The Pagan Community in Transition

Robbing Fox to Save Rabbit, by Lupa

December 1, 2019 HumanisticPaganism Ancient and Modern Paganism, belief, HP, Intellect, Latest Posts, Lupa, naturalism, naturalistic pagan, Paganism, Psychology, Responsibility, Science, Science and Religion, spirituality, Superstition and Reason

We need to return to an ancestral way in which nature is not an Other, but an Us. If we truly love nature, if we consider ourselves friends to the animals, then we need to know nature itself, through books and observations, through science and questioning. We need to know the rest of nature as well as we know ourselves.