Re: Scientific Pantheism and Humanistic Heathenry

"Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Greetings!
>
>
> I was active in the WPM (World Pantheist Movement) a few years ago
> before my job got crazy and I had to move to go up that career ladder.
> My wife and I will probably get active/rejoin (we let our dues
> lapse...) again although we are
> now in the Antelope Valley (Lancaster) area of California and wonder
> if there are any of you out there. We also have two small children
> ages 3 1/2 and 5.
>
> I have floated around various freethinker groups for years - like the
> Unitarian Universalists (unfortunately the UU's in Lancaster seem
> predominantly theistic), Ethical Culture member-at-large, the
> American Humanist Association, the Atheists United (part of the
> Atheist Alliance), et al.
>
> Right now I have been developing Humanistic Heathenry which is simply
> a nontheistic celebration of indigenous, pre-Christian Northern
> European cultural traditions and practices (including nontheistic
> seasonal celebrations and ceremonies like blots and sumbels which
> have more flavor than a generic Winter Solstice celebration). It is
> basically Asatru interpreted through the lens of humanism. I put the
> WPM faqs and credos up on my discussion group for discussion so you
> are welcome also to join us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASHH/ if
> you are interested. There is a file on Humanistic Heathenry in MS
> Word format in the Files section.
>
> Personally I don't think that the different nontheistic movements
> should be in "competition" and have always favored multiple
> memberships if it meets the needs of the individual. How many members
> of the WPM are also members of the UUA? I remember giving a
> presentation on scientific pantheism at the Monte Vista UU
> Congregation in Montclair.
>
> For myself, I view Scientific Pantheist, atheist, humanist as terms
> all referring to the same thing. Probably the only difference is the
> emphasis. It is just approaching it from a different angle. We do
> like fighting over our labels though. ;-) Of course, I disagree with
> Paul that humanism is too anthropocentric - that is a common popular
> fallacy. In fact, the most vigorous group within humanism is
> ecohumanism (which has an emphasis very close to Scientific
> Pantheism). I use all of these terms to describe myself - it depends
> on the context in which I am in. On the other hand, I am one of those
> people who has a strong disagreement with the use of
> religious/"spiritual" terminology using fuzzy redefinitions (which
> are basically not accurate) to make them "acceptable" to nontheists
> while making us SOUND like theists. That always seems like we are
> having to apologize for not being theistic.
>
> Wassail!
>
> Ashheathen
>
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASHH/

Nice. See you there.


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