RE: A Question From Atheists
June 23, 2017 at 4:23 am
(This post was last modified: June 23, 2017 at 4:28 am by The Grand Nudger.)
It would probably be useful, at this juncture, to point out that you have not accurately represented pantheism Nos. Pantheism does not hinge upon the assertion that the universe is god, left hanging and unsupported out there in the wind. The case cannot be made by mere assertion, no case can.
It explicitly seeks to establish that the universe possesses those characteristics, or enough of them, attributed to those other, totally woo, "actual" gods. In this way, the universe is said to be like them in order to be justifiably placed within the set (and in so doing avoids equivocation - things shown to be equivalent are not things to which the fallacy of equivocation applies)...but in doing so, it's no longer "just the universe"..it's a universe, with the attributes of a god. Which, yet again, is something that I don't believe in.
It explicitly seeks to establish that the universe possesses those characteristics, or enough of them, attributed to those other, totally woo, "actual" gods. In this way, the universe is said to be like them in order to be justifiably placed within the set (and in so doing avoids equivocation - things shown to be equivalent are not things to which the fallacy of equivocation applies)...but in doing so, it's no longer "just the universe"..it's a universe, with the attributes of a god. Which, yet again, is something that I don't believe in.
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