Nature Religion for Real, an article by Chas S. Clifton


Since my first involvement with Neopagan Witchcraft in the mid-1970s, I have been told that ours is a “religion of Nature.” Occasionally people say, erroneously, that we “worship Nature” or ask, as I was asked once during at talk at a Roman Catholic seminary, whether we worship “nature” or “nature’s creator,” a question that I did my best to slide around, since I did not want to merely set up a counter-theology of “Yahweh in drag.”

In fact, contemporary Witches and other Pagans have tossed the term “nature” around for years without seriously examining what it means ...