RE: Even if you choose not to believe in god, you’re actually believing in god
May 27, 2016 at 5:09 pm
(May 27, 2016 at 4:32 pm)Losty Wrote: The only difference?? I think you might be confusing theistic for deistic. It's one thing to believe that the universe is god, it's something entirely different to believe the god universe wants you to sacrifice a bull with large enough testicles for its liking.
Exactly right. Like some others, I have no real problem with 'Spinoza's God' (as a philosophical concept, at least) or equating 'God' with 'Nature'.
That being said, Nature doesn't expect me to pray to it, or donate a portion of my income, or set heretics alight.
Boru
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