
Analytical philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote in “A Free Man’s Worship” that the world which science presents to us is purposeless and void of meaning, and our lives are nothing but the “outcome of accidental collocations of atoms.” Similarly, Steven Weinberg…
Read MoreIn developing my own non-theistic or naturalistic spirituality, the issue of deity was one of the most difficult to address. Nothingness As I wrote in my first post, the idea of nothingness – or that which is beyond infinity –…
Read MoreOn Carl Sagan’s Cosmic Calendar (illustrated as a comic strip here), which maps the entire history of our cosmos onto a single year, September is particularly interesting. Since the Big Bang in January (13.7 bya or billion years ago), the universe…
Read More– by B. T. Newberg The focus of HP is community. Why? Though this website started as an outlet for one guy’s thoughts (mine), it soon became clear that there were many others of like mind out there. Pretty quickly,…
Read MoreYour 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. Allegory is one of several ways that naturalistic traditions have historically interpreted…
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