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The nature of Paganism is that of exploring, evolution, and opening up.

Spirited: Taking Paganism Beyond the Circle

For those who struggle with anti-pagan prejudices and stereotypes, Humanist Paganism might be a powerful educational tool. It can show that a pagan can be a sophisticated, cosmopolitan, and enlightened person, and that a pagan culture can be artistic...

Brendan Myers

Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders of all time, such as Alexander the Great, Pericles of Athens, Hannibal of Carthage, and Julius Caesar ...

Brendan Myers

Pagans earn their reputations for relaxed sexual mores, often in rebellion from the repression of their religions during adolescence. At a Pagan festival, one need only lower one's guard to be offered sex under the cloaking of the sacred.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Grab it while you can because tomorrow could suck you dry.

The Pagan Stone

Paganism is the default of most children, since they excel at magical thinking.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

When we destroy it." She spoke clearly now, steadily now. "If it comes in a form with a dick, I will personally castrate it".

The Pagan Stone

I have heard that Paganism is for broken people, but life cracks everyone in some way. We are a religion of healing people.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Mythology didn't cease to exist and be useful to Pagans when we gained digital watch technology.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Legend tells us that the High King of Tara, who ruled supreme over all the Kings of Ireland, looked out from his castle one day during the festival of Eostre and saw a fire blazing away on a far hillside. Furious with this obvious disregard for the l...

Mrs Darley's Pagan Whispers: A Celebration of Pagan Festivals, Sacred Days, Spirituality and Traditions of the Year. Carole Carlton

The first time I called myself a 'Witch' was the most magical moment of my life.

Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America

Complex astronomical instruments like the Antikythera Mechanism and the Nebra Sky Disk were made by Pagans. Our Pagan intellectual heritage includes poets and scientists and literary intellectuals of every kind, especially including those who wrote s...

Brendan Myers

Call it a case of observer bias on my part, but Humanist Paganism seems to be an emerging option for those who want to be part of the Pagan community, but who want to be a little more intellectual about their practices, and they really don't care abo...

Brendan Myers

The pagan, or rational, virtues are such things as justice and temperance, and Christianity has adopted them. The three mystical virtues which Christianity has not adopted, but invented, are faith, hope and charity. Now… the first evident fact, I s...

G.K. Chesterton

The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and practically gave everybody their body. And the Christian...

Timothy Keller

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

David Hare

Perhaps it is weariness that causes seers not to act on what they see; for whereas the wisdom of the world can be vast, it includes the many futilities. Ideas do not have legs with which to run and hands with which to craft. They are wisps of smoke f...

Confessions of a Pagan Nun

There is a theory that men do not need Paganism because they have endless avenues of societal power available. Why use spells when one can get a bank loan with little trouble? The world already bends over backward to accommodate men, so why perfect t...

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Having spent all of my decision-making years as a Pagan of one stripe or another, I have long found it condescending at best to assume one cannot worship the old gods or believe in magick without breaking out the leather bracers, wings, or Ye Broken ...

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Pagans can be just as monstrous as any other group. They can be murderers, rapists, pedophiles. We need to accept that they are our problem and deal with them. We need to speak against their crimes and challenge them rather than letting our silence m...

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

A too often forgotten truth is that you can live through actual events of history and the underlying reality of what's going. What history misses, the myth clearly expresses. The myth in the hands of a genius give us a clear picture of the inner impo...

The Pagan Christ: Recovering the Lost Light