Naturalistic Paganism
Monthly Archives: December 2013
Cosmic Calendar Special
Carl Sagan’s Cosmic Calendar maps the entire history of our cosmos onto a single year. You can follow the entire calendar here at Humanistic Paganism. As you imagine, things speed up considerably as the year advances. After the Big Bang on January…
Read More“How I became a naturalist”: DT Strain & B. T. Newberg, part 1
Today we continue our early winter theme, “Beginnings”, with an a dialogue between B. T. Newberg and DT Strain, where they discuss how how they became Spiritual Naturalists. Click above to listen. In this audio piece, more of a dialogue than an…
Read MoreThe HPedia: Counterintuitive
Your help is needed! Please critique this entry from the HPedia: An encyclopedia of key concepts in Naturalistic Paganism. Please leave your constructive criticism in the comments below. A key concept in the Cognitive Science of Religion is counterintuitiveness. It…
Read MoreYes, Virginia, I’m a Pagan Atheist, by Jeffrey Flagg
All of this is to say that I find the question of the gods being “real,” and indeed discussions of their ontological nature in general, somewhat silly. It doesn’t matter if they’re “real” if they’re meaningful. So, yes, I am an atheist because I don’t believe in the existence of a deity. I’m also, however, a Pagan, because I have a personal relationship to the same things that Pagans have relationships to. Once you get past the word games of ontology, being an atheist Pagan isn’t so silly after all.
Read MoreAn interview with HP’s founder, B. T. Newberg
“The most encouraging part for me is when I think how many might never have met each other if not for the site. They might have been in a place like I was – just crossing their fingers that they weren’t alone – but now there’s a sense of community.”
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Pagan Coming Out Day – May 2nd
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