Naturalistic Paganism

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Truth and compassion: Which takes priority?

– by B. T. Newberg In a recent guest post at The Friendly Atheist, Marcus Mann posed a question: “I have to ask to what degree correctness crowds out other values important to me, particularly that part of me that…

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Participatory reverence, by Hypatia’s Girl

Magic is the art of changing consciousness at will – Dion Fortune My relationship with religion has always been… fraught.  To be more specific, my relationship with systems of belief has always been complicated.  From the beginning, from my nice,…

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Is Naturalistic Paganism beneficial to society?

– by B. T. Newberg What good do we do?  Last time, we tackled the question of harm.  Now let’s consider the potential good. We should be careful not to let this become a self-congratulatory fest.  We must be even…

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Life on Earth as a religion? by Brock Haussamen

In The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion, published in 1967, Peter Berger analyses religion as socially constructed knowledge. His description suggests to me that our body of knowledge about the history and evolution of life could…

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Is Naturalistic Paganism harmful to society?

– by B. T. Newberg The goal of this website is to promote naturalistic spirituality (check out our mission statement).  But is it possible that, in the end, we’re doing harm to society? By harm, I mean any substantial increase…

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