"Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to……" — Brendan Myers
"Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders of all time, such as Alexander the Great, Pericles of Athens, Hannibal of Carthage, and Julius Caesar of Rome, were all pagans, or else living in a pagan society."
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14 Quotes by Brendan Myers
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People in minority religious communities, like Paganism, often feel isolated and even marginalized by others because of the lifestyle differences…
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If loneliness is part of our essence, that is, our essential nature, that is only because of the way, in…
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For those who struggle with anti-pagan prejudices and stereotypes, Humanist Paganism might be a powerful educational tool. It can show…
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Complex astronomical instruments like the Antikythera Mechanism and the Nebra Sky Disk were made by Pagans. Our Pagan intellectual heritage…
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The gods, if they exist, are just the people who happen to live on the other side.
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The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller…
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No one is served or benefitted by believing in false or faulty ideas.
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All our relationships are person-to-person. They involve people seeing, hearing, touching, and speaking to each other; they involve sharing goods;…
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Relationships do not happen in abstraction. They need a place; they need a centre, even a home.
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What matters is being a particular kind of person. At the most basic level, it matters that you are the…
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My earliest interest in game design came when I was in primary school, and my parents bought a Commodore 128…
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Our world is utterly saturated with fear. We fear being attacked by religious extremists, both foreign and domestic. We fear…
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