RE: New, and stuff
June 4, 2013 at 7:20 pm
(This post was last modified: June 4, 2013 at 7:21 pm by TheBigOhMan.)
(June 4, 2013 at 6:01 pm)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote:(June 4, 2013 at 4:32 pm)TheBigOhMan Wrote: maybe you are right on the superstition part, but I said Panentheism, not pantheism. They are similar though Panentheism is more woo.
They're actually quite dissimilar... one is subscribing to a belief in multiple/many gods, the other that at least one 'god' is greater than the universe (possibly that the universe is infact a part of the being that is <god>).
Cool, huh?
I think it may be possible you are confused for the similarity between the words. I checked wikipedia and the belief in multiple Gods is named Polytheism ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytheism ) while Pantheism is the belief that God and the Universe are equilvalent, in a sense while Panentheism is what you described ( God + Universe).
You made me doubt though given that Pantheism sounds more in line with Pantheon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon_(gods) ) that is a set of Gods in a polytheistic worldview.
