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Isn’t pantheism the same thing as atheism?
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RE: Isn’t pantheism the same thing as atheism?
(March 14, 2021 at 3:01 pm)Seax Wrote: These are all excellent questions.

I'm going to format the text my own way since this stuff becomes part of my files.

“The really absurd claims are the Garden of Eden, which early Christian apologists like Origen defended as allegorical, rather than literal, truths. The story was ridiculous to most even in a time when things like ceremonial magic went unquestioned.”

==Yes, the number of absurd claims is high.
A jew, christian, muslim or mormon who tells me those stories are allegorical, I tell them that the tanakh is a chain of sentences. It is written in a story (as in history) format. There is a chain of people who are begetting other people and there are stories as to what they do and there is mention of tribes, cities, some of which have disappeared while others still exist.
So exactly, at which line does the tanakh switch from allegory mode to reality mode?

Also, before science came along, no one (or should I give some leeway here?) claimed that those were allegories. If I am wrong, they are free to show me a church claimed that those were allegories. I want to see an original print, coming from a top guy at a church.

This shows us how superior science is to religion.

“They believe that God is separate from nature & regard much that is natural, and in my view healthy, as ungodly.”

==I think it isn’t healthy. My religion teacher told me that the body does not last forever and thus, it isn’t important. I went to a christian school.
Well, a VIC-20 might not last forever but to someone who grew up with it and loves it, learns about the hardware and finds replacement components to fix it.
If you view this life as temporary, then what is the point of going to school, what is the point of scientific discoveries?
What’s the point of getting up in the morning? Just put a gun to your head, which is what some people did about 1000 y ago.
It was a religious movement started in France. They were advocating celibacy in order to not bring any new humans into this “rotten” world.
Eventually, the catholic church decided to kill them all.

“Moderation and selfcontrol; enjoying food without overeating, sex without becoming a letcher, wine without overdrinking, feeling anger without becoming a slave to rage; this was the Pagan ideal.”

==The problem with that is, how do you measure overeating, lascivity and so on?
It is subjective.

Antony Flew was born in 11 February 1923, London, England, United Kingdom.
Died 8 April 2010 (aged 87).
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Flew

It’s interested that he agreed with ID claims.

“Pantheism is a monist conception of God. It is logical and coherent. God would not create a universe with laws opposed to His Will.”

==The above line suggests that the object being called a god has a brain.

“because God acts through natural laws, which are His Will.”

==So, if I do something in this universe, I am interfering with god’ will?

“Christians that reject nature & believe sex is evil & never reproduce are punished with genetic extinction, as are the secular anti-natalists & other anti-natural nutcases.“

==Let’s say that instead of sex, I want a special 3D printer. This 3D printer positions atoms/molecules. Over time, it can build a human.
Is such a machine possible?
Why hasn’t this god created this machine?

Also, do souls exist according to these  Pantheism monists?

“The difference is that atheist monism rules out God, while pantheist monism rules out everything else. The atheists looks at the trees, the stars, outer space & says 'I don't see any God.' The pantheist sees nothing but God.”

==All atheists I have encountered don’t rule out god and they, including me, think that when someone is talking about a god, they are talking about a guy.
In my case, I tell theists, it is possible that this universe is artificial and if they want to call the guys responsible for their existence a “god”, they can. I would not do that.

The pantheist riles out everything else? Can you clarify?

“pantheism sees them as the Will of God.”

==So, if I make a painting, is that painting my will or the will of god?

“As for how a brainless thing can have meaning, I see not why we should assume that anything with a brain has meaning out of the blue either. I hold that meaning comes from God, from nature.”

==That was the thing that I did not understand and looks like a few others as well. I was under the impression that you were calling this universe a god,
It looks like you think you are calling it a god and also that there is a brain.
You mentioned will of god 4 times in your post.

--Ferrocyanide

(March 14, 2021 at 6:44 pm)Seax Wrote:
(March 14, 2021 at 6:14 pm)Ferrocyanide Wrote: How else is this god (or gods) going to think?

Because there are only 3 choices:
1. Some thing is designed and assembled by a thinking being, capable of logic and mathematics and perhaps has "good taste".
2. Some thing simply exists.
3. Some thing gets assembled via the intrinsic properties of nature: For example, 2 protons join. This duo has an excess amount of energy. Eventually one proton converts to a neutron and a neutrino and position gets emitted at high speed.

--Ferrocyanide

Why would God 'think' in the same manner as a human?

Are you saying that this god thinks without having a brain?

--Ferrocyanide
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Messages In This Thread
RE: Isn’t pantheism the same thing as atheism? - by Duty - March 14, 2021 at 12:58 pm
RE: Isn’t pantheism the same thing as atheism? - by Ferrocyanide - March 15, 2021 at 10:30 pm
RE: Isn’t pantheism the same thing as atheism? - by Seax - March 19, 2021 at 12:53 am
RE: Isn’t pantheism the same thing as atheism? - by Alan V - November 18, 2021 at 3:38 pm
RE: Isn’t pantheism the same thing as atheism? - by Alan V - November 19, 2021 at 5:18 pm
RE: Isn’t pantheism the same thing as atheism? - by Alan V - November 20, 2021 at 2:05 pm
RE: Isn’t pantheism the same thing as atheism? - by Alan V - November 21, 2021 at 7:54 am
RE: Isn’t pantheism the same thing as atheism? - by Alan V - November 22, 2021 at 2:37 pm
RE: Isn’t pantheism the same thing as atheism? - by Alan V - November 23, 2021 at 1:29 pm
RE: Isn’t pantheism the same thing as atheism? - by Alan V - November 22, 2021 at 8:43 pm
RE: Isn’t pantheism the same thing as atheism? - by Angrboda - November 23, 2021 at 10:04 am

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