The Pagan Naturalist Temple, usually called only The Pagan Temple, came to be long before the written history of the temple. This is the story of the temple, before those in the story knew where it was going.
In the late 20th century a young girl that had been disowned by everyone in her family, sought refuge in religion. While sitting in a foster home at just 12 years, she started to explore religion with a diligence that few encountered in that day and age. She studied Christianity and many of it's major branches. She studied Buddhism and it's many forms. She even studied New Age religions like Eckankar and Wicca. None of these religions suited her just so.
With Christianity, she saw too many conflicts with in it. The Bible would damn one person for the same thing another was elevated for. In Buddhism she questioned the idea of becoming nothing and felt she could not honestly peruse that goal even if an end to suffering were the reward. In Wicca she saw the impossibility of “harming none” and how it was hypocritical.
It took her many years of intense study to come to the conclusion that no religion could be the true religion. She also felt most were out dated and didn't address the very difficult moral issues that modern men and women face today. It was with a heavy heart, that she turned her back on religion all together. Now she would have to face the world alone. With no family to turn to, no friends to lean on, and no peers to talk with she hesitantly moved forward with life.
After a turbulent start she became a mother. Her first child taught her love. Now a mother she felt complete. However, life had plans of it's own for her and she met a man that would later become her life mate. Together they made a home in the south of the United States and continued to have many children.
By the time the eldest child was in her teen years, the mother felt she needed to show her what she had learned of religion. Unfortunately, having no means to do so other than speaking, the teen rejected out of hand the mother's wisdom. She accepted the common people's religion without studying it or questioning it. This saddened the mother greatly and she vowed to at least teach her other children all that she had learned, so that at least they could make an informed decision before choosing a religion.
To do this though, the mother had an impossible task alone. The mother spoke to the father about it and together they decided to build The Pagan Naturalist Temple for their children. So it is today and hopefully forever more.