Pops, you must realize that having a generally unorthodox theology means you must make greater effort to clarify your position. It simply isn't enough to say "not me". Speaking as a generally unorthodox Christian (Swedenborgian), I know that it can be frustrating and time consuming to present your beliefs. While no shortage of AF members will intentionally mischaracterize your positions with innane phrases like "sky daddy", there are also sincere debaters that rely on familiar frameworks and are trying to understand where you fit in. It is incumbent on you to do a better job suppling that framework. Personally, I cannot make sense of your subtle distinctions. Is GOD (in caps) similar to Plotinus' "The One" or the biblical "God is Love." Deism, theism, pantheism, and panentheism are solid comprehensive categories. It seems inconsistent and confused to me to say God is a little bit of one and a little bit of the other. Look, I'm not saying that you must write a comprehensive essay. All I'm saying is that people need more context, like comparisons with familar concepts: kind of like Brahma as the Ground of Being, similar to a gnostic demiurge, comparable to Aristotle's First Cause, etc.
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