Mark Green's Atheopaganism Blog: Politics

Citizens’ Climate Lobby launches Earth-based Spirituality Action Team

Wed, Sep 11, 2019

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Politics

12 September 2019 — The CCL Earth-based Spirituality Action Team announces its formation and inaugural conference call. The team will offcially launch just after the southward equinox on 24 September 2019, with an interactive call featuring guest speaker M. Macha NightMare. Citizens’s Climate Lobby is a nonproft, nonpartisan,…

Imagine

Fri, Jun 14, 2019

Mark Green

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Politics, Atheology

Ours is a vision of a better world. So let’s imagine it. In the world we seek to build, kindness is paramount. None are “Other” or “lesser”, be they queer or disabled or poor or differently colored in skin tone. And those who are unfortunate are helped: our society leaves…

Talking Paganism in the Mainstream

Tue, Jan 08, 2019

Mark Green

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Opinion, Politics

Ross Douthat, conservative columnist for the New York Times, has stirred some Pagan feathers with a column arguing that rather than becoming fully secular, the US may be moving away from a transcendentalist religiosity (such as that of Christianity and Judaism) and towards “paganism”, which he describes…

If You’re a US Citizen, PLEASE VOTE!

Sun, Nov 04, 2018

Mark Green

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Opinion, Politics

Jon over at Humanistic Paganism has a great post up, reminding us of the critical importance of voting—and voting Democratic—in Tuesday’s U.S. elections. The domination of the nation’s current politics by the party of Trump simply must end, and the first step must happen now.

And So We Fight On

Sat, Oct 06, 2018

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Politics, Personal Reflection

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. …

Requiem and Invocation

Tue, Jun 19, 2018

Mark Green

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Practice, Politics

Friends and Allies, let us grieve. Let us grieve that an era of progress and forward thinking appears to be drowning in a sea of ignorance, hatred and fear. Let us grieve that reason has been swamped by credulity, and science by superstition and willful ignorance. Let us grieve. Let…