Didn't know where else to post this, but for what it's worth I thought this was a great article.
Canadian Atheist: Is There an Unspoken Pagan/Atheist Alliance?
As an avowed atheist, I notice that I generally don't have any problems with most Pagans due to the fact that Paganism is more or less tolerant and accepting of all; there are gay pagans, transgender pagans, agnostic pagans, pantheistc pagans, deistic pagans, etc who all bring a different persepctive to the table.
I've had similarly positive experiences with most Buddhists.
I would say there kind of is. There is for me, but it's more broad than that.
In general I disagree with worldviews that don't seem well-evidenced, where people have many highly specific beliefs without correspondingly specific evidence.
So in that sense, whether one is Christian, Islam, Hindu, Pagan, or something else, I'm generally going to disagree with the approach.
But there's also a moral and character development aspect to religion as well. For example, there could be two religions A and B, and while I'd potentially view them as equally unevidenced, religion A and those that adhere to it might be generally inclusive of all people, diverse, loving, chill, etc. while religion B and those that adhere to it might be generally thinking their religion is the only correct one in the world, might preach about torture or wrath, might go after groups and wish to treat them as inferior without any real-world evidence, etc. In that example, while I'd have some disagreements with people of religion A, I don't necessarily view them as harmful. They could be quite helpful.
I went to a pagan ceremony at college once and the people were great.
Generally, the kinds of religious topics that bother me the most are when:
a) they try to combine religion and government
b) they blend it with dislike towards a group (like how homosexuality is illegal in most Muslim countries, how most gay marriage opponents in North America or Europe are Christian, etc)
c) they completely ignore science, and worse, wish to reduce the influence of science on society
d) they teach things that hurt people or are irrationally unethical
I don't exactly run into too many pagans doing that. I could say the same for very socially liberal Protestant Christians as well. Or deists. Or some Hindus or other worldviews.
And as for Buddhism, it has some secular applications. The philosophical aspects of it can be useful in a secular context, and the effects of various kinds of meditation have measurable impacts (and usually beneficial ones) on the brain.
