Question for Atheists

[The Reality Salesman01]

Nah, I've given lots of long thoughtful posts and am starting to get bored. As for your question, I advocate panentheist, process theology. And I really don't have time to explain all that. You can do your own research.

You have offered many thoughtful posts, Chad. I didn't know that you were an advocate of Panentheism. You've always struck me as an advocate of Christianity. I guess from your view, Christianity is not necessarily incompatible with what you hold to be true, but I think that Christianity is not compatible with your views. While your views allow afford Christians the right to be wrong, theirs don't seem to be quite as forgiving. When thinking about how power is made manifest, any theist position that is a proponent of Creatio ex Nihilo seems to be reduced to either Pantheism, Panentheism or some other absurd movement of the goal posts. I think I tend to be a little more accepting of pantheism, but instead of God, universe suits me just fine. To use "God" in a pantheistic context seems intentionally ambiguous. To me, Panentheism is an unnecessary complication to the whole thing, and while I disagree with you, I do appreciate you taking the time to discuss it. I hope we can come back to it another time.

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@The Reality Salesman

Exactly. I've heard it summarized roughly like this: if we have an immaterial soul in addition to our brain, it doesn't seem to *do* anything worth speaking of!

And anything that is indistinguishable from nothing, might just as well be nothing as far as I'm concerned. Coincidentally, this is a great argument against God and His nothing-like properties.