RE: A pantheistic argument.
October 30, 2012 at 1:18 pm
(This post was last modified: October 30, 2012 at 1:20 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(October 29, 2012 at 5:34 pm)DoubtVsFaith Wrote: 1. Let's assume that there is one god and it is whatever is the most influential force in the universe.
What is the basis of this assumption?
(October 29, 2012 at 5:34 pm)DoubtVsFaith Wrote: 2. The universe as a whole has more influence than anything else because without it nothing else can exist, because everything is part of it. It is so influential that it necessitates existence itself by definition, assuming that the universe is everything.
I am not sure this leads anywhere except its own anus.
(October 29, 2012 at 5:34 pm)DoubtVsFaith Wrote: 3. Therefore the universe itself as a whole is god.
Why apply additional names with unfortunate cultural baggage for reference to exactly the same thing? "Universe itself is the universe" not good enough?
