RE: Isn’t pantheism the same thing as atheism?
November 18, 2021 at 8:30 am
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2021 at 9:27 am by The Grand Nudger.)
About half and half. Seax believes that atheism proposes or asserts a meaningless world. I know that's not true, not just of the term, but of atheists in general. There's usually some splitting of the baby between atheists, pantheists. Seax believes that meaning comes from a capital g god, I don't believe in gods.
The difference between a pantheists God and nature, is contained within the term theism, which refers to personal and intervening forces. I don't think that nature is personal..though I'll give it intervening.
That, imo, is part of what misinformed us about gods existing at all. In nature you have every force and circumstance that intervenes in your life..and, being that we're built for projection and prediction..we see intervention, and we profile a real or hypothetical intervener. That's why gods are always so locally specific. Gods are believed to do whatever nature is doing that is relevant to us. When you strip the superstition from the stories, there's still the observation of power, interconnectedness, and intervention.
The difference between a pantheists God and nature, is contained within the term theism, which refers to personal and intervening forces. I don't think that nature is personal..though I'll give it intervening.
That, imo, is part of what misinformed us about gods existing at all. In nature you have every force and circumstance that intervenes in your life..and, being that we're built for projection and prediction..we see intervention, and we profile a real or hypothetical intervener. That's why gods are always so locally specific. Gods are believed to do whatever nature is doing that is relevant to us. When you strip the superstition from the stories, there's still the observation of power, interconnectedness, and intervention.
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