Much as the Christian Overculture has made it its business to erase, co-opt or appropriate pre-existing religions in the West--as well as to eradicate and supplant other cultures and traditions throughout the world--archeology presents us with treasures now and again that remind me of a different world that existed prior to the imposition of the …
Existing in both the atheist world and in the Pagan, Atheopagans have the unique "good fortune" of fielding criticism from extreme elements of both. I've written before about Pagan fundamentalists who dismiss our religion as "not real Paganism. " Today, we take a look at the atheist community's counterpart: the so-called "anti-theists". A vocal subset …
Continue reading Talking with Atheists Who Dismiss Your Atheopagan Practice
For thousands of years, since the very advent of human existence, there has been an evolving trajectory of religious history in Western societies. The story passes from the earliest animism and ancestor worship to the rise of belief in gods, the consolidation of authoritarian power under monotheisms, and the complete domination of Western societies by …
One of the hottest points of contention between Atheopagans and both theists and hard-antitheist atheists has to do with naturalism. Naturalism is a philosophical position which holds that there is nothing which is not of the physical Universe: that there is nothing which is supernatural, and that such claimed supernatural phenomena as gods, spirits, souls, ghosts, …
Atheopaganism 