RE: God, Energy and Matter
September 18, 2019 at 5:23 am
(This post was last modified: September 18, 2019 at 5:34 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I've plugged this book before, but, some really fine lines have to be drawn to confine pantheism and prevent it from contradicting it's own self defined premise. A Religion of Nature. Crosby. There's a difference between the universe being god, pantheism- and nature being metaphysically ultimate, which is not pantheism at all. Lek has been asserting that the attributes commonly given to his god describe (roughly) some natural x. Not that the natural x's are a god. He concludes as much, sure....but that's because Lek is a very....very sloppy thinker when it comes to all things G-O-D.
For lack of a better umbrella term to describe this, he's describing crosby's religion of nature, religious naturalism. Not pantheism. In religious naturalism, there are no gods. In pantheism, there is at least one god, lol. That's why it's got the -theism- tacked on at the end, there.
For lack of a better umbrella term to describe this, he's describing crosby's religion of nature, religious naturalism. Not pantheism. In religious naturalism, there are no gods. In pantheism, there is at least one god, lol. That's why it's got the -theism- tacked on at the end, there.
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