The Life and Thoughts of a Modern Day American Heathen

The Middle Way: Herman Melville’s Polytheism

Posted by on Dec 27, 2010 in Polytheism, Religion | 1 comment

Conservative Christians like to talk about the evils of “relativism” and also “nihilism” which they believe is the unavoidable...

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Heathen’s Day Featured in 50 Best Blogs for Wiccans

Posted by on Oct 7, 2010 in Blogging, Blogs of Note, Christianity, Extremism, Heathenism, Monotheism, Paganism, Polytheism, Religion, Wicca, Witchcraft | 6 comments

Online Christian Colleges is running a piece on the 50 Best Blogs for Wiccans. Refreshingly, they point out that “One of the most...

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Introducing Digital Gods

Posted by on Sep 8, 2010 in Blogs of Note, Computers, Paganism, Polytheism, Religion, Science, Social Networking, Spirituality, Technology | 4 comments

I’d like to introduce you all to Digital Gods, www.digital-gods.com, a platform for the study of polytheism in the digital age, where...

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The Persecuted Christian Meme and Religious Toleration

Posted by on Sep 6, 2010 in Christianity, Church and State, Heathenism, Intolerance, Monotheism, News, Paganism, Politics, Polytheism, Religion, The Constitution, Wall of Separation | 2 comments

The poor persecuted Christian stories are getting pretty old by now. Top dog for more than twenty centuries, exterminators of every...

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Sky Gods and My Gods

Posted by on Aug 18, 2010 in Christianity, Mythology, Paganism, Polytheism, Religion, Review | 5 comments

What are we to think when we read comments like this, “Either we might think of Christ purely as God, in which case he is no longer...

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Bend Over and Kiss Your Golden Idol Goodbye

Posted by on Aug 11, 2010 in Christianity, Church and State, Civil Rights, General, history, Monotheism, Paganism, Politics, Polytheism, Religion, The Constitution, Wall of Separation | 2 comments

Since Akhenaten’s failed experiment with monotheism in the fourteenth century B.C.E. monotheism has waged war on mankind. It was not...

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