Author Richard Dawkins, who wrote The God Delusion. Photo: Reuters
Paganism can be an awesome launching pad, especially for children and teens, from which to explore what religion, faith and spirituality really means to the average person. There is little restrictive dogma resulting in confined thought processes when it comes to general paganism, unless one eventually feels called to follow one of the more structured traditions that fall under this same umbrella. Even then, new practitioners are rarely, if ever, bullied into believing what their mentors believe in or 'suffer eternal damnation'. Pagans encourage curiosity in everyone which is a wonderful thing since it nurtures free thinking in all and wards off conformity & control.
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