My essay The Myth of Monotheism has just been published on Witchvox. It’s longer than what I write here, and in its Witchvox form has no documentation because I was too inept at uploading the manuscript. But the documentation exists.  I am continuing to work on the essay, so I especially welcome comments.

Our discussion of Pagan atheism prompted me to write something on Paganism’s theistic side.  Speaking for myself, no argument convinced me to follow a Pagan path, it was concrete experiences that did: encounters with a Pagan deity.  Not surprisingly, if Spirit is immanent, existing within the world, it is more accessible than a purely transcendent…

The apparent paradox of Pagan atheism has prompted me to do a lot more thinking about atheism than I ever have before.  In the process I picked up a copy of the British philosophical journal Philosophy Now,  which had a fascinating article on “Varieties of Atheist Experience” by Paul Cliteur.  It turns out that atheism…

Earlier this week I was down visiting Pagan friends in the Bay Area.  Our conversation  ranged over a lot of topics, as it always does.  This time we ended up discussing a discovery that had surprised a close friend when he discovered it.  It surprised me as well when he told me the story.  That…

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