Because Quote by Liz Williams

“Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated.”

Liz Williams

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Because Contemporary Essentially Ethical New Paganism Particularly Sophisticated Structure Underlying

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Contemporary paganism gives me a subjective lens through which the world in which I live can be interpreted on an aesthetic and an ethical…

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I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship with the…

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For me, spiritual practice is a lot closer to art than science.

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“In the matter of prejudice...we are all the same. Goddess and demon, human and monster: none of us understand difference, but at least some…

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Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'

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Just so that we are clear on this, I am in favour of teaching children about different beliefs. I am not in favour of…

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Some religious practitioners make absolutist claims for their beliefs: I've no interest in doing this, nor do I have any interest in converting people,…

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I have issues with anyone who tries to claim that science is unworkable - creationists who deny evidence for past history, yet are happy…

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Authors as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, E. Nesbit, and J. R. R. Tolkien have shaped modern paganism as greatly as any theological underpinnings.

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Much of what Karl Popper contributed to the philosophy of science has now passed into mainstream thought, into the currency of that nebulous, tricky…

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