#Secular

[fuckyeahwallpaintings]

Mosaics da via Panisperna / Mosaics from the Via Panisperna in Rome, late 2nd - early Ist century BC today at Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy

Photos: Carole Raddato / wikimedia commons / CC BY-SA 2.0

[holidaysincambodia]

Afghanistan before the Taliban

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

J.G. Davies - The Secular Use of Church Buildings - The Seabury Pr - 1968 (jacket photo: The B. and W. Menstrels rehearsing in Coventry Cath., 1967; 'Christ in Glory in the Tetramorph', tapestry by Graham Sutherland)

[turangalila]

Gilles Binchois, (1400–1460)

Adieu, adieu, mon joieulx souvenir

Adieu, adieu, mon joieulx souvenir, / le plus hault bien qui me puist advenir, / belle et bonne que j'aim autant com moy. / Le dire adieu me donne tant d'anoy / qu'a grant paine puis je la bouche ouvrir. // Ce seroit fort que me puisse esjouir / quant j'eslogne mon souverain desir / et la chose que plus voulentiers voy. // Adieu, vous dy; il est temps de partir. / Adieu, celle que tant ay chier veïr. / Mon povre coeur vous remirant, par ma foy; / aultre que vous ne joira de soy; / tous deulx vous lesse, helas quel desplaisir.//

_ Triste Plaisir. The Music of Burgundy. Lena Susanne Norin / Randall Cook / Susanne Ansorg. (2002, Raum Klang 2208)

[secular-jew]

Is Israel secular?

Citizens of Israel are Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Druze, Hindu, Sikh, atheist and agnostic, religious and secular, straight, gay, trans, and everything in between. Have you never been to Israel? Maybe go to Israekl and learn for yourself instead of asking dumb questions.

[campomni]

Welcome to the official Tumblr blog for Camp Omni!

What is Camp Omni?

Camp Omni is a one of a kind California secular summer camp experience! Camp Omni provides an educational adventure shaped by fun and friends.

Our camp features science, natural wonder, and humanist values such as empathy, creativity, critical thinking, and community. Summer sessions are week long, outdoor residential camps for campers ages 8-17.

For more information, you can click the link below to check out our website!

If you would like to ask questions about the camp/the experience of attending/anything that you can think of, you can go ahead and send us an ask here on Tumblr. We don't bite!

[bli-o]

I dunno i just feel like social justice movements have completely left behind atheists and agnostics and just secular people generally ESPECIALLY apostates

[its-terf-or-nothin]

[wat3rm370n]

Mike Johnson immediately introduces misinformation into the new Congress.

Mike Johnson read some kind of supposedly inspirational prayer upon being elected House speaker, but he inappropriately tried to claim that it was written by Thomas Jefferson, the historic figure so notoriously non-religious that he actually made a version of The Holy Bible that omitted all the miracles, superstitions, and mysticism - including The Resurrection. 

The Jefferson Monticello - University of Virginia in Charlottesville - Research & Education - Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia  - National Prayer for Peace (Spurious Quotations) Ultimately, it seems unlikely that Jefferson would have composed or delivered a public prayer of this sort. He considered religion a private matter, and when asked to recommend a national day of fasting and prayer, replied, "I consider the government of the US. as interdicted by the constitution from intermedling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises."[3]

My letter to my representative in the House:

I would be very careful about trusting the judgement and leadership of Mike Johnson considering he entered misinformation into the public record immediately upon being elected House speaker when he tried to claim that some prayer was written by Thomas Jefferson, the historic figure so notoriously non-religious that he actually made a version of The Holy Bible that deliberately omitted all miracles and mysticism, including The Resurrection! This lapse in judgement by Speaker Johnson, and his staff in not preventing such an embarrassing gaffe for a Christian, doesn’t really inspire confidence, does it. 

Please feel free to copy or repurpose the contents of my letter for your own letters to reps.

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Science is the secular religion of today and scientists are, in a very literal sense, the new priesthood. And it all began when Ben Franklin flew his kite in a thunderstorm in the crucial year of 1752.

"The Stars in their Courses" - Isaac Asimov

[xerxeswitch]

My Unpopular Opinion about 'Deities' (mini vent:)

I strongly believe not all "gods" are healthy, infinite, benevolent, selfless, flawless, or all powerful who deserve special treatment just because of a human constructed status.

I treat anyone accordingly upon how they treat me, and you don't get respect unless you respect my space.

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This is coming from someone who respects Anubis as a 'person' I connected with because he was respectful and mindful, and we just got along.

That being said, I don't believe in worship or even the concept of a "god" but just the status of celebrities.

From the ask box here and in metaphysical groups, I had too many people insisting to me that I should just bow down to them just because they're "gods." If I don't agree with them, a few tried to send these "gods" to smite me because I'm a non-believer.

You believing in a deity doesn't automatically make you better or special than other witches whom might be secular.

It makes me roll my eyes when I hear, "Gods are gods! You don't get to talk about them that way!"

The way I work, I need to get up and personal and not greet them ONLY because they're "gods/goddesses. But as people I just get along with.

I can understand some 'deities' are important in certain cultures that built it in the first place, but I just then see it as that -- culture/religion. Since I don't believe in the concept a 'god/goddess' I don't have to believe in their 'god/goddess', but I can still acknowledge what they got for it as strictly their culture.

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I'm glad you adore what you do, and keep doing it if it gives you meaning and happiness. I respect what you're into at a healthy balance, as long as you respect mine. Please, everyone is different.

You wouldn't be any better as a proclaimed, radical Christian tried to shame you for not submitting to the Lord.

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Edit:

I received a couple of threats just from this post alone in my ask box.

(One said she'll send Aphrodite to give me nightmares and sickness, while the other got really upset and threatened me with actual violence to change my mind)

If you are representing your "gods/goddesses" through how you're acting like a derelict -- I'm glad you have so much faith in your 'gods' to protect you, but nothing will shield you from the consequences of being an intolerant, toxic person. I'm sure they'll step aside and let things slip...unless the "god/goddess" is toxic themselves.

[oceanicmarxist]

God isn't real. Sorry.

[bowserpunk-vevo]

its been 2000 years guys... let's face it, Jesus holy-ghosted us

[turangalila]

Guillaume Dufay (1397 — 1474)

— Par le regard de vos beaux yeux — Le serviteur hault guerdonné

— Par le regard de vos beaux yeux

*Par le regard de vos beaux yeux / Et de vo maintien bel et gent / A vous, belle, vien humblement / Moy presenter vostre amoureux. // De vostre amour sui desireux / Et mon vouloir tout s'y consent / * // Or vous plaise, cuer gracieux, / Moy retenir or a present / Pour vostre amy entierement, / Et je seray vostre en tous lieux. // * //

— Le serviteur hault guerdonné

*Le serviteur hault guerdonné, / Assouvi et bien fortune, / L'eslite des heureux de France, / Me treuve par la pourveance / D'un tout seul mot bien ordonné. // Il me semble en prime estrenne; / Car apres dueil desordonné / Sui fait par nouvelle alliance / * // J'estoye l'homme habandonné / Et le dolent infortuné, / Alors que vostre bienvouliance / Veult confermer mon esperance, / Quant ce beau nom me fut donné, // *//

- Guillaume Dufay: Complete Secular Music. The Medieval Ensemble of London. Peter Davies & Timothy Davies. (1981, L'Oiseau-Lyre – D237D6)