New Theism

[Brian37]

A couple have been doing 'missionary' work to, what seems like, promote this new movement called New Theism.

New Theists are not believers; we’re evidentialists. We value scientific, historic, and cross-cultural evidence over ancient texts, religious dogma, or ecclesiastical authority. We also value how an evidential worldview enriches and deepens our communion with God (Reality/Ultimate Wholeness/The Great Mystery).

New Theists are not supernaturalists; we’re naturalists. We are inspired and motivated more by this world and this life than by promises of a future otherworld or afterlife. This does not, however, mean that we diss uplifting or transcendent experiences, or disvalue mystery. We don’t. But neither do we see the mystical as divorced from the natural.

http://metanexus.net/blog/new-theism-she...dium=email

Would any of you consider yourselves to fit these descriptions? Anything you disagree with about this whole thing?

Translation, "woo light". If you say you are not supernaturalsts then don't cling to the word "theist" and don't claim a god because a god IS super natural.

There is a word for what you are trying to say and Jefferson was one, "Deist", but it still implies a god, no matter how much you want to water it down. This is just a stupid attempt to avoid the baggage of a god claim.

What the theist calls "mystical" the atheist merely says "I have a sense of awe of the natural world but don't insert woo where knowledge currently lacks".

This is nothing but back peddling when faced with the absurdity of a naked assertion. Prop it up with pleasant sounding terminology rooted in the same ambiguity of naked assertions as any other so you can claim "I am not like the others".