What's the difference between a humanistic pagan and an atheistic pagan? After a post by Thalassa (you mentioned you felt a blog post coming on, I forget what thread it was posted in, though) ...I started doing some research into Humanistic Paganism. What is it? Does it make sense to me? I was curious. After several hours of reading on a site called The Allergic Pagan I started to wonder.
So, correct me if I'm wrong, but a humanistic pagan is a pragmatic pagan with belief in the natural world, and the gods as archetypes. As an archetype, they are of human design, and therefore, not real. Since they are not real, how does that make a humanistic pagan different from an atheistic one?
Or is it just six of one, and a half dozen of the other?
So, correct me if I'm wrong, but a humanistic pagan is a pragmatic pagan with belief in the natural world, and the gods as archetypes. As an archetype, they are of human design, and therefore, not real. Since they are not real, how does that make a humanistic pagan different from an atheistic one?
Or is it just six of one, and a half dozen of the other?
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