My sympathies for pantheism

[MJ the Skeptical]

Pantheism to me just always seemed like poor Scientific analysis about the Universe. So, the universe is god to a Pantheist, but why such a Hasty Generalization when the universe was a starting point for existence at the singularity. The universe was clearly not a starting point for intelligence at the singularity (which theists of all stripes seem to always say) let alone a god/deity which would hypothetically be all intelligent/powerful/good/etc. Some have said Pantheists are just one step away from Atheists or even "Sexed up Atheists" but I don't see the correlation there. If anything, Pantheism could be looked at as the last step of rehab before kicking the theism habit. But it's quite different than being an Atheist I'd say, you still believe in the whole god thing as a Pantheist.