Mark Green

No, the Blood of the Ancients Does Not Run Through Our Veins

Sat, Oct 17, 2015

Mark Green

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Atheology

There is something pleasantly romantic about nostalgia. Particularly nostalgia for what has never been experienced: imagined times, long ago. I’m certainly prone to it. I love costuming and living history and reenactments and really good, period-accurate films and television series. Nemea and I enjoy throwing themed costume parties, and I…

The Powers of an Atheopagan

Wed, Oct 14, 2015

Mark Green

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Practice, Atheology

They aren’t gods. They aren’t self-aware, and thus have no agency. They don’t communicate. They simply are. Irrefutably. And they are not “worshiped”. They have no egos with which to soak up adulation. They are here. They are real. They are honored, revered, contemplated with humility and wonder. They are the Powers…

We Die.

Mon, Oct 05, 2015

Mark Green

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Practice, Atheology, Death

We’re going to die. All of us. Grappling with this fact may be the single most powerful factor in what it means to be human. It is so profound and unarguable a fact that every religion has to confront it in one way or another, and Atheopaganism must, as well. And while…

Harvest of Ashes: A Shadow Sabbath

Mon, Sep 21, 2015

Mark Green

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Principles, Sabbaths, Atheology

It’s supposed to be a time of bounty: the gardens overflowing, the grapes coming in to be crushed, the hard blue sky of autumn whispering, “hurry, time’s a-wasting.” A time for feasting with friends and reveling in sunsets; a time for sporadic hints of the wild weather to come. But what…

In the Season of Fire

Sun, Sep 13, 2015

Mark Green

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Atheology

California, it is said, has four seasons: flood, mud, fire and earthquake. With fires raging and an unprecedentedly large El Nino forming for the coming winter, I suspect we’ll see a lot of the first three in the coming months. As to the fourth, who knows? As I write, the…

Returning to a Space of Our Own

Sat, Aug 29, 2015

Mark Green

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Opinion

Recently, Niki Whiting at Patheos advised her readers not to read the work of those who are “mean”, and specifically named me as one such writer. It’s not hard to see why. A core truth of Atheopaganism clashes with a treasured precept of the hard theist. We…