Godless Paganism: Voices of Non-Theistic PagansEven in pagan antiquity, there were those who, while participating in the communitys religious life, did not believe in literal gods. In the centuries that followed the Christian domination of the West, the epithet godless pagan was leveled at a wide variety of people. In the 1960s, there emerged a community of people who sought to reclaim the name pagan from its history of opprobrium. These Neo Pagans were interested in nature spirituality and