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Laws of Secular Paganism

Making polytheism make sense

The four pillars of Secular Pagan conquest: "spread your gods, spread your law, spread your sword, spread your children"

The four pillars of Secular Pagan conquest: "spread your gods, spread your law, spread your sword, spread your children"

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The Four Pillars of Secular Paganism are: 
"spread your gods, spread your law, spread your sword, spread your children"

Let's review the seven Pagan Natural Laws which are the basis of Secular Paganism

1. No monotheism/bitheism
2. No anti-blasphemy  laws
3. Adult free-love but high fertility  
4. No murder
5. No theft
6. No animal/environmental cruelty 
7. Set up courts of justice 

The last law asks the Secular Pagan to set up a court.  Obviously a court with the ability hand out punishments cannot exist unless it is backed by the state powers, and so Secular Pagans are commanded to seek to gain control of governments.  So how do Secular Pagans gain control of the state?  From the seven Pagan Natural Laws used to create Secular Pagansism we can derive four pillars of conquest: "spread your gods, spread your law, spread your sword, spread your children". 

Spread Your Gods (or your atheism)

If Secular Pagans are going to gain power, there needs to be lots of pagans. One way to get lots of pagans in your society is to evangelize for your gods.  Ways of doing this will be discussed later but it is important to make sure people know paganism exists and to generate an appreciation of the gods. Since the monotheists seek to destroy the plural powers, and monotheism is banned by Secular Paganism, you must also spread anti-monotheism and anti-bitheism. You want an appreciation of the gods and an antagonism toward monotheism in society to prepare it to accept Secular Paganism.  Secular Paganism also allows atheism and so atheists are also welcome to spread their lack of faith, as long as they do not promote banning polytheism.  

Spread Your Law

Once polytheism and atheism are high in society and there is more disdain for monotheism and bitheism, you can begin suggesting the Secular Pagan laws as a legal system for society.  there are many steps you can take to begin the process of enshrining Secular Paganism into your state constitution, and this will be discussed at a later time, but a general understanding of the law should become present in your society and you should agitate to have these laws installed. 

Spread Your Sword 

Secular Paganism does not tell you what to do to take control of the state, it can be done through voting or by violence (but only if a violent revolution is likey to work, if you are too weak keep plotting for a while).  Once you are in power, you must spread and enforce the law in the land.  You must spread your sword internally and cleanse your society of monothieism, bitheism, anti-blasphemy, sexual regulations of adult humans, murder, theft, animal and environmental abuse, and lawlessness. When you have done this you can then recoup and prepare to spread your sword to other nations which do not uphold Secular Paganism. War with other nations can be physical, but if violent warfare is not possible you must use non-violent methods to topple nations that do not support Secular Paganism. 

Spread Your Children 

A positive birth rate is an institution of Secular Paganism.  You do not need a court to begin breeding in large numbers.  No one will ever be forced to have children, but collectively the group should vow to double their numbers every generation.  This should be happening from the very first phase, when you are spreading the gods, then when you are establishing the law, then when you are spreading your sword, and after that. Once a government is established the government must find ways to maintain a high birth rate without resorting to sexually regulating the adult population. 

If Secular Pagans uphold these four pillars, they can conquer the world. 

Making polytheism make sense

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Muslims, Christians, and Jews say their monotheistic god is the most logical explanation of the universe. Here is their argument:

1. The universe did not appear out of nowhere, nor could it be uncreated, so there must be a creator, the universe is contingent. 
2. This creator must be outside space and time if it were to create the universe. 
3. The creator must be necessary; uncreated (pre-existing)
4. The necessary creator cannot enter its creation. 
5. The creator is unlimited in power. 
6. A single creator is the simplest answer. 

Secular Paganism does not tell you how to define your gods, it simply tells you how you can't define your gods (as in monotheism/dualism). However, if you want your universe to make sense according to the monotheists, we would suggest the following understanding of the gods:

1. The universe is created and has creators. 
2. The creators must be outside space and time. 
3. The creators are pre-existing (uncreated).
4. The creators are limited in power (there is little room for more than one all-powerful being).
5. The creators must be called another word than "necessary" because there is no creator who is responsible for ALL of creation.  We call these collaborating powers "zinda" rather than necessary.  
6. While an all-powerful necessary being cannot enter creation, perhaps a limited power non-necessary being (zinda) can.  If it becomes untenable for the zinda to take physical shape then abandon this notion. 
7. Multiple creators is more complex, but that does not mean it is wrong. 

This being said, Secular Paganism does not outlaw believing the universe is uncreated or that it appeared out of nowhere, nor does it outlaw stating that the gods do not exist outside of space and time. However, these assumptions would be called "illogical" by monotheists...  which may or may not be  true. 

Laws of Secular Paganism

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Four Pillars:
"spread your gods, spread your law, spread your sword, spread your children"

Secular Paganism is not a religion, it is a legal system which preserves paganism and eradicates anti-idolatry, yet it is an Agnostic non-religious state which protects and even promotes blasphemy, even of pagan gods.  Secular Paganism is not about making you believe in something but making you follow laws which prohibit certain kinds of expressed thinking and actions in order to prevent the replacement of ethical polytheism with monotheism. The reason why someone would fight and die for Secular Paganism is because they have an intense faith in many gods (or none) and see the rational and real need to protect them, each Secular Pagan fights to protect their own set of deities and to spread their worship and unites with other pagans to do so because it is logical. This is the essence of pagan natural law, laws that can be deduced without revelation or written scripture. We do not need monotheism to outlaw murder and theft, these are natural laws and were followed by pagan societies. It is natural law for pagans to unite to protect their common interest of maintaining polytheism. A second reason to fight is a moral conviction against the corrosive effects of monotheism, creating a single ideological and ethical culture which strangles out the moral diversity needed for growth, a diversity of ethics that still adheres to natural principles.  Secular Paganism is an agreement between pagans to seven categories of laws, naturally derived, which are crafted to protect and promote polytheism while permitting agnosticism and atheism.  The reasons these are followed is not because they  are revealed by the gods but are rational concepts which can be derived by human intelligence and ethics. 

The 7 Categories Of Laws

1. No unidolatrous religions or anti-idolatry, atheism and agnosticism are permitted 

2. No laws prohibiting blasphemy or anti-blasphemy ideologies

3. No legal regulation of consensual sex between humans or shaming people for their legal sexuality, but maintain a high birth rate (at least double your numbers every generation)

4. No one may murder anyone

5. No one may steal from anyone

6. If you take the life or liberty of an animal be as humane as possible. Environmental damage is inevitable, but do not destroy nature more than is necessary. 

7. Set up courts of justice to enforce these laws and act as a government

Sub Laws (Under Construction)

Law Governing Unidolatry and Anti-Idolatry:

1.1 No Monotheism,  god cannot be one

1.2 No Bitheism, the gods cannot be two

1.3 The gods must be three or more 

1.4 No religion that would be considered shituf by a Noahide court, so no intermediate between monotheism or monism and polytheism.  No soft polytheism, no polymonism.  

1.5 If the religion distinguishes between creator and non-creator deities there must still be multiple creator deities, not just one.   

1.6 No legitimate anti-idolatrous sentiments are allowed in public, no anti-idolatry campaigns or speech. 

1.7 No laws outlawing agnosticism or atheism  

1.8 No anti-sorcery laws

1.9 A general criticism of idolatry is permitted. For example an atheist may spread doubt about the efficacy of idol worship or an agnostic may call idol worshp "stupid". What is meant by anti-idolatry (which is illegal) is an attempt to in speech, writing, or action criminalize idolatry.   

Law Governing Blasphemy Laws (No Anti-Blasphemy)

2.1  The government may not pass any law limiting the freedom to blaspheme any god. 

2.2  The government shall critique all belief systems in regards to their conformity with Secular Paganism and their logical, rational, ethical, and practical legitimacy, thus through criticism the government will blaspheme all religions, pagan and non-pagan.   

2.3  Anti-blasphemy sentiments cannot be heard, seen, or witnessed in public. 

2.4 A citizen accused of unidolatry can escape punishment by blaspheming the monotheistic or bitheistic god they are accused of worshiping. 

Law Governing Consensual Human Sex and Reproduction

3.1  The government may not pass any law regulating sex between consenting adult humans. 

3.2 No rape

3.3 The government must require each married couple to sign a marriage contract before marriage stipulating grounds for divorce.  If the couple list adultery as grounds for divorce then the adulterer can be found at fault in a divorce. 

3.4 No limit to  the number of spouses one can marry 

3.5 No limit to gender one can marry 

3.6 The legal age of marriage and sexual adulthood is 18, sexual activity and marriage between adults over 18 and non-adults under 18 is  prohibited 

3.7 Prostitution and pornography is protected by law

3.8 No public shaming of someone for their legal sexuality  

3.9 The government should seek to find any and all methods social and scientific to maintain a high rate of reproduction despite sexual liberation.  The goal and duty of the government is to at least double the population every generation. 

3.10 No bestiality 

No Murder

4.1 No one may murder anyone 

4.2 Unwilling human sacrifice counts as murder

4.3 Death in declared war is not murder

No Theft 

5.1 No one may steal from anyone  

5.2 No slander or libel (stealing someone's reputation)

5.3 No kidnapping

Animal and Environmental Welfare

6.1 If you take the life or liberty of an animal be as humane as possible.

6.2 Do not eat animals alive or tear their flesh while they are still living.

6.3 No Kosher or Halal Slaughter.

6.4 Keep some natural land for animals to use and live in.

6.5 Don't destroy the environment more than you need to.

6.6 Find ways to reduce pollution and environmental disturbance. 

Command to Set Up Court-Governments

7.1 Set up courts of justice to enforce these laws and act as a government

7.2 The court-government must create punishments for breaking any of the laws of  Secular Paganism.  The punishment must be strong enough to deter people from committing crimes and the court can always  decide in any case to hand out the death penalty.

7.3 No circumstantial evidence 

7.4 For the crimes of unidolatry, anti-idolatry, or anti-blasphemy, it takes three witnesses to be prosecuted.  Sex crimes take two witnesses and a victim can be a witness.  For murder or theft it can take one credible witness if there is other corroberating evidence. If there is no corroborating evidence it takes two witnesses to be tried for murder or theft.  Animal cruely and environmental destruction take two witnesses. Societies that do not set up court-governments are warred upon in any  way possibe, physicialy or otherwise.