Naturalistic Paganism

Category: Practice


Canadian Atheist Interviews Jon Cleland Host, Part 1

Throughout all of this, It’s been wonderful to connect with other Pagans in the wider Pagan community, and join in many different rituals and celebrations. It can be a tricky balance at times between my own hard-nosed naturalism/atheism and the prevalence of pseudoscience/woo in the wider Pagan community. I sometimes have to remind myself to consider if a supernatural belief is very harmful or not, but overall it’s been great to simply enjoy a ritual with others, even if we personally think of the language used differently – such as if many others see a deity as literal and I see a metaphor. After all, no one thinks anyone is going to hell for being a heretic.

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Happy Spring Equitherm!

Celebrations Life!  We celebrate life today, especially life’s growth and evolutionary diversification.  We see the resurgence of life around us, and for me, this reminds me of the surge of life over the all of Earth’s history.   An now, with…

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The Pandemic Gives us Online Rituals for Beltane

Have you been attending gatherings by zoom meetings or other remote software?  I have.  I’ve visited more various Pagan, UU, Atheist and other events in the past few weeks than in many months before that.

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Happy Spring Equinox!

Amid all the eggs and bunnies, it’s easy to forget the challenges that evolution has overcome (and continues to wrestle with) when it comes to eggs and babies.

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The Spring Equinox Approaches…

For me, the growing daylight (reinforced by the start of Daylight Savings Time) is a reminder from our Earth itself, one of those many helpful features of our seasons, to begin thinking about, and planning for, the Spring Equinox/Ostara.  Another reminder – one that is rather bizarre – is the appearance of a “warm-blooded” plant that smells like a zombie!

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