When Paganism Ends...

[kevyn]

My deep philosophical question for the season:

Is it possible to be an Atheist (or Agnostic), and be a Pagan at the same time?

I don't have an answer, I'm just mulling it over in my mind. I used to think "yes," and identified as such, but since then I've had Pagan friends I trust and respect tell me I can't be both at the same time.

Sorting out belief...

-Hagrid

Comments

[cubziz.livejournal.com]

And true. But religions evolve just as everything else does (despite what some religions say about evolution *giggle*) and while it was used to subjugate an entire group of people, it has grown into a completely self-sustaining unit since. Hence why I was using it as the example. I was not trying to ignore the roots, was just speaking more about the current usage/combination.

But I mean, as an example, an entire sect of Christianity came about because of one guy wanting to divorce and remarry. ;)

So religion is not a rigidly defined thing and tends to be just as fluid, so having two belief systems is not anything to be worried about.

I suspect most of "Christian" America right now feels the same way as very few of them identify as being "the Bible is exact word" types.