RE: A pantheistic argument.
October 31, 2012 at 6:14 pm
(This post was last modified: October 31, 2012 at 6:25 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I still don't believe the universe is god (or that god is the universe) - Even if you do...and I'd call that a difference, wouldn't you? Perhaps even the difference between pantheism and atheism.
If there was "nothing more" then the term god becomes useless (to you...no less, but still useful to me..because again...I don't see any reason to merge the terms). There is more, and the more is the god bit. A label does not change belief, but a label does change the description of that belief if the label is a disqualifier. There are no gods in atheism Doubt....by definition. You're going to have to argue that away next, so you're about halfway there (if I just rolled over to your assumptions..which I do not).
(all this shit about labels..lol, show me a word I couldn't call -just a label-....?)
If there was "nothing more" then the term god becomes useless (to you...no less, but still useful to me..because again...I don't see any reason to merge the terms). There is more, and the more is the god bit. A label does not change belief, but a label does change the description of that belief if the label is a disqualifier. There are no gods in atheism Doubt....by definition. You're going to have to argue that away next, so you're about halfway there (if I just rolled over to your assumptions..which I do not).
(all this shit about labels..lol, show me a word I couldn't call -just a label-....?)
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