{"id":79265,"date":"2021-01-08T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegrrl.com\/2004\/02\/your-online-recycling-database\/"},"modified":"2021-01-08T08:04:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T13:04:00","slug":"science-religion-and-witches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2021\/science-religion-and-witches\/","title":{"rendered":"Science, Religion, and Witches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tToday I found a site called <a href=\"https:\/\/thesecularwitch.com\/\">The Secular Witch<\/a>. I had been reading about agnostic Witches and a link came up from the site. Most people seem to think you can&#8217;t be agnostic, or an atheist, and still be a Witch (as a religion). I don&#8217;t agree. The religion is not about a god or goddess. It was about nature, life, the planet, and so on. It is sad if people now believe in a god\/ goddess and have lost this idea.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Secular Witch is a place for non-religious witches to find resources and support when it comes to atheist, agnostic, skeptical or science-loving spirituality and witchery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe people still have the old idea that science and religion don&#8217;t mix. I think they are versions of the same thing. Early science was seen as magic, experimental and religion was a part of it. Why divide them now?<\/p>\n<p>Then I found <a href=\"https:\/\/naturalisticpaganism.org\/\">Naturalistic Paganism<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In summary they seek to explain the universe without resort to supernatural causes. Adopting scientific explanations and skeptical of any claims that are not supported by mainstream science.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, this is a lot of labels and classifying of ideas and people. It is nice to just be an eclectic and let things sort themselves out a bit rather than trying to identify, classify, and control it all.<\/p>\n<p>But, it was interesting to read about both sites and I will have them in my links.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2021\/science-religion-and-witches\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Science, Religion, and Witches\"><p>Today I found a site called The Secular Witch. I had been reading about agnostic Witches and a link came up from the site. Most people seem to think you can&#8217;t be agnostic, or an atheist, and still be a Witch (as a religion). I don&#8217;t agree. The religion is not about a god or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1458],"tags":[1037,1497,459,1528,596,761,1248,1572],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}