It's Saturday, so I'm continuing my tradition of proselytizing paganism:

Although we have a bad rep for being "woo" and hugging trees or whatever, paganism is actually a very logical religion when compared to others.
To paraphrase my husband, "The sun is right there fueling all life on Earth, we should probably be worshipping it."

Our holidays are built around the seasons; actual, observable things that are happening at that moment, like the solstices and equinoxes. Not, like, some quasi-imaginary guy's birthday from thousands of years ago.

Paganism has always been a combination of philosophy and natural science. In fact, pagans were doing science before science even existed. An overwhelming majority of pagans are adept at reading ancient occult texts and academic journals alike. We love science and logic, and like scientists themselves, we agree that it's a limited tool that can only be applied insofar as someone can come up with an experiment to test the hypothesis. For the rest, we turn to philosophy and historical practices for clues.

Sure, at the end of the day, all religions are "made up," even if they're rooted in actual events. But with paganism, each person gets to 'make up' stuff for themselves, inspired by millenia of evidence of human beliefs, instead of being told what to do by someone else.

If you want a religion where you are your own authority, where climate change is real and combating it is a spiritual practice, where ideas new and old are accepted on their merits, then paganism might be right for you!

#pagan #paganism #polytheism

Next on my calendar will be my Midsummer observance; I will be performing a proto-Indo-European rite to Saulē, Perkwunos, and Dānu.

Do you have plans for the summer solstice?

#SummerSolstice #paganism #Polytheism

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Sisyphus is taking forever!

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2124206/sisyphus-is-taking-forever

Ok, if the Pope can do it, then so can we:

The use of "AI" to generate "art" is antithetical to paganism.
Literally the only one thing we all agree on as pagans is that climate change threatens life on Earth, and we should do something about it. It is our one unifying tenet.
Wasting precious resources to prop up a planet-killing fad just to generate badly plaigerised "art" goes against this single, definitive belief.

#paganism