The Allergic Pagan
You can still reserve your copy of "Godless Paganism" and take advantage of the other perks. All profits over and above our funding goal will go to The Wild Hunt's fall funding campaign! Read more
You can still reserve your copy of "Godless Paganism" and take advantage of the other perks. All profits over and above our funding goal will go to The Wild Hunt's fall funding campaign! Read more
Help raise the voices of atheist, humanist, naturalist, animist, pantheist, and Gaian Pagans. We are gathering writings of atheist and other non-theistic Pagans for publication of the first ever book by and about non-theistic Pagans. Read more
Is Halloween a holy day for you? Do you experience any dissonance with honoring the ancestors while others are trick-or-treating? Read more
I’m glad that the stained glass windows are there, standing between me and the sun. They give me something beautiful to appreciate, something to relate to. I might sometimes go outside and stand in the direct sunlight and bask in its unmediated warmth – some mystical experiences are like that. But as wonderful as that experience is, I wouldn’t want to give up the stained glass windows. It's true that all the colors of the rainbow exist within the white light of the sun, but I can’t appreciate them in that form. It’s just too hard for human beings to relate to an undifferentiated Oneness. We need diversity and color. Read more
Tell us why you call yourself "Pagan". Tell us what Paganism adds to your commitment reason and science. Send your articles and essays to humanisticpaganism [at] gmail [dot] com. Read more
I’m brand new at environmental activism. One thing I have learned over the past year is that it is easy to get discouraged. There’s four myths that I think contribute to this. They can affect anyone who is environmentally active, but they especially affect those new to earth activism. And so I want to rebut each of those myths here. 1. You don’t have to have all the answers. The first myth is that you have to have the answer... Read more
Why do we call ourselves "Pagan"? Why not just call ourselves atheists or humanists? What does the "Pagan" label add to our identity? Read more
We need to find a way to live mythically, without taking our myths literally -- to believe our myths, without believing in them. We need our myths to live by, but we also need to be conscious that we have a choice of which myths to live by. Not all myths are equal. And we really could use some good myths nowadays. Read more
If you're a polytheist who believes in multiple pantheons, then you have to acknowledge the possibility that there are some atheists who have met gods. Read more
“… Human beings have consistently demonstrated a collective unwillingness to place the needs of our other-than-human neighbors before our own. The only way to truly protect the river is for humans to identify with the river and to see its needs as their own. Rather than finding the source of the river’s value in it being the home of another individual like me, I value the river because it is me … and I am it — or rather, we... Read more
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