Mark Green

Exploring the Atheopagan Principles: Principle 7—Inclusiveness

Mon, Feb 02, 2015

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Principles, Atheology

This post is part of a series exploring the Atheopagan Principles proposed in my essay, “How I Became an Atheopagan.” To see the whole series, click on “Atheopagan Principles” in the tag cloud to the right. Principle 7 is inclusiveness. It reads, “I celebrate diversity and am respectful of difference.”…

Why an Acorn?

Sat, Jan 31, 2015

Mark Green

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Practice

NOTE: In 2018, the Atheopagan community collaborated to nominate and select a new symbol for our religion. That symbol, the Suntree, is in the header of the blog and is described HERE. I wear a silver pendant of an acorn, and have since my transition out of…

Reality, Language and the Inner World

Fri, Jan 30, 2015

Mark Green

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Atheology

As you may have gathered, I don’t believe gods are real. Thus, the “Atheo-” in Atheopagan. Recently, however, I had a long conversation on Facebook that turned into a discussion about what we mean when we say something is “real”. From that conversation, I have concluded that “real” is a nearly useless…

Exploring the Atheopagan Principles: Principle 6 —Praxis

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

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Principles, Practice, Atheology

This is the 6th in a series exploring the 13 Atheopagan Principles I proposed in my essay, “How I Became an Atheopagan.” To read the series, click on “Atheopagan Principles” in the tag cloud to the right. Principle 6 states, “I enact regular ritual in observance of my religion.”…

An Atheopagan Life: Celebrating Riverain, and Adapting the Wheel of the Year

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

Mark Green

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Practice, Sabbaths, Atheopagan Life, Atheology

Originally posted at HumanisticPaganism.com The eight holidays of the modern Pagan “wheel of the year” present an annual cycle of Sabbaths tracing seasonal changes, agricultural cycles, and metaphors of the cycle of life. For an Atheopagan, it’s not a bad point to start from, rooted as it is…

The Focus

Wed, Jan 28, 2015

Mark Green

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Practice, Techniques

This piece is excerpted from the Atheopagan Ritual Primer. A Focus is what Atheopagans call an altar. We choose a different word because “altar” implies worship—or even sacrifice—and we want to be clear that that isn’t what we are doing. The Focus is a work of art: a…