RE: Isn’t pantheism the same thing as atheism?
November 20, 2021 at 6:49 am
(This post was last modified: November 20, 2021 at 7:06 am by The Grand Nudger.)
That's like saying whether or not a given christian believes in a literal christ is beyond the requirements of christianity. True in practice, but not in categorization.
There very much are standard definitions and terms for different types of gods that people have posited. Pantheism. If the universe is not godlike in the manner shared by, say, monotheism and henotheism and polytheism and atheism then we're not talking pantheism - but a simple religion of nature. That's why people confuse pantheists for atheists, because they've confused themselves for pantheists.
The word literally means that everything amounts to a capital g God. As opposed to panentheism, which means that everything - plus x- amounts to, or deism, with it's little g god that isn't presently active in the world. Pantheism is the notion that theistic gods can be made of a series of mechanical laws. As a postulate, it's not wildly off base. We're beings, and we're made of a series of mechanical laws, after all. All that it rounds down to is whether or not a person believes that the whole universe can amount to an entity like us.
There very much are standard definitions and terms for different types of gods that people have posited. Pantheism. If the universe is not godlike in the manner shared by, say, monotheism and henotheism and polytheism and atheism then we're not talking pantheism - but a simple religion of nature. That's why people confuse pantheists for atheists, because they've confused themselves for pantheists.
The word literally means that everything amounts to a capital g God. As opposed to panentheism, which means that everything - plus x- amounts to, or deism, with it's little g god that isn't presently active in the world. Pantheism is the notion that theistic gods can be made of a series of mechanical laws. As a postulate, it's not wildly off base. We're beings, and we're made of a series of mechanical laws, after all. All that it rounds down to is whether or not a person believes that the whole universe can amount to an entity like us.
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