And So We Fight On
We believe in a better world
We believe in justice
We believe in a better world
We believe in peace
We believe in a better world
We can heal our planet
We won’t bow down.
We won’t bow down. –An Atheopagan ritual chant
It matters now to hold a vision.
It matters not to think this moment is forever.
It matters now that we are good people, and we uphold kindness and simple human decency as a value. It matters that we love the world with all our hearts.
The deathgrip of white male capitalist supremacy will not persist. It will not. Women’s rage and the fury of the oppressed and the sheer raw power of the systems of the Earth itself will break it and sweep the pieces away.
It will happen in increments. It will not happen soon enough.
But it will happen.
Hold in your mind the flame that knows: it will happen.
Live in hope. And act from it.
Mark Green
Author of ATHEOPAGANISM: An Earth-Honoring Path Rooted in Science, Mark Green is the initiator of the Atheopagan path and editor at the Atheopaganism blog. With co-host Yucca, he records the weekly podcast The Wonder: Science-Based Paganism, makes YouTube videos, and creates materials and resources for practicing Atheopagans. He volunteers as a staffer to the Atheopagan Council to support the growth of Atheopaganism throughout the world. In his home of Sonoma County, California, in the occupied ancestral lands of the Southern Pomo and Coast Miwok peoples, he is best known as an activist and founder of Sonoma County Conservation Action, the largest environmental activism group by membership on the North Coast of California.
