Mark Green's Atheopaganism Blog

Living an Earth-Honoring Path Rooted in Science

Sun, Nov 10, 2024 Mark Green Atheopagan , Politics No comments

The return of Donald Trump and his appalling gang of fascistic cronies to power will have worldwide impacts. There no other way to put this: those of us with decent, kind and life-affirming values are decidedly out of power in the United States as of January 20, 2025, and the likely environmenta...

Mon, Nov 04, 2024 Mark Green Sabbaths , Politics 1 Comment

It’s the night before the most important US Presidential election of my lifetime.

The entire world has a stake in the outcome: a decent and adequate leader with sound values and qualifications versus a mad, incoherent, hateful man obsessed with prosecuting his grievances and who has surrounde...

Thu, Oct 31, 2024 Mark Green Sabbaths No comments

Happy Hallows, everyone, and may your celebrations be all the things listed in the title!

I’m off to go walk in the old rural cemetery…

Sun, Oct 27, 2024 Mark Green Ritual , Descriptions No comments

I improvised this guided meditation for the Atheopagan Saturday Zoom Mixer’s Hallows ritual on the theme I wrote about here, and people liked it so I thought I would write it down before I forgot it.

First, get comfortable. Take a deep breath and feel that life-giving oxygen like a wave runni...

Mon, Oct 21, 2024 Mark Green Sabbaths , Death , Personal Reflection No comments

It’s Hallows season–Samhain, Halloween, what have you–and my mind turns to mortality, decomposition, recomposition and the great wide Circle of Life.

I’ve written a bit about death. Here, about the fact of mortality. Here, about how we can prepare for our deaths in a manner that is kind to o...

Sat, Oct 12, 2024 Mark Green Sabbaths , Ritual , Descriptions No comments

I am fascinated by the tradition of the sin-eater.

Found in several European cultures but primarily known from southern Wales and parts of England adjacent, the tradition is that after someone dies, their body is laid out with food atop its chest or on a sideboard next to it, with a small co...