RE: I don't understand pantheism
July 22, 2017 at 3:35 pm
(This post was last modified: July 22, 2017 at 3:37 pm by drfuzzy.)
I have met a lot of people who were raised religious - devout catholics, protestants, or ex-batshit-crazy-fundie like myself - who dabbled in witchcraft or spiritualism or other types of mystical woo before finally deciding it was all ridiculous. It's kind of a backwards erasing of religion - you know, man went from worshiping mother earth or the sun or the moon or the wolf spirit to monotheism. Go backwards! You can have a goddess of gardening, a god of car repair, a goddess to help you study, a god to help you work on your telepathic powers - - all more fun than asking Jeebus to help find your car keys!
For those extricating themselves from an evil bastard sky god, the peacefulness of nature religions and communing with the earth's mystical lines of force can have a lovely pull. Until you realize the mystical lines of force are fantasy unless you're talking magnetic fields. Communing with nature gods is great - I now just call it gardening though.
Pantheism - history. Also an alternative form of woo for those disgusted with Yahweh and Allah and their ilk.
For those extricating themselves from an evil bastard sky god, the peacefulness of nature religions and communing with the earth's mystical lines of force can have a lovely pull. Until you realize the mystical lines of force are fantasy unless you're talking magnetic fields. Communing with nature gods is great - I now just call it gardening though.
Pantheism - history. Also an alternative form of woo for those disgusted with Yahweh and Allah and their ilk.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
