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So how many of you have heard of Pantheism and how do you feel about it? I totally identify with everything I've read on it.

onewithnature 5 Jan 21
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More specifically, scientific pantheism. They don't believe in a supernatural creator and focus on science and caring for mother earth. I don't see anything about worshiping any type of god, personal or otherwise.

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I lean toward the idea of pantheism, that God is everything there is. I also think that there might be such a thing as cosmic consciousness or universal awareness and that we are extensions of that.

It is important IMO to keep in mind that the word “God” is nothing but a symbol or icon for ultimate reality, which we humans can not detect or understand with our space/time/matter model. It is silly to argue over something when we haven’t the slightest idea of what we are talking about.

There really is an ultimate reality beyond the sense-world however. That has been universally understood by physicists since the days of Faraday and Maxwell.

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Tell me more. What do you mean when you say you totally relate to everything you've read on it?

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I was a practicing pagan(witch) for many years, with an eclectic mix of God’s/goddesses from many mythologies. I never saw them as gods, but as natural forces.

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since i am an atheist, why in the world would i be more receptive to believing in lots of gods than to believing in only one? i am not receptive to any kind of theism, mono- or pan-.

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Same here

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Why does there need to be a belief system? I love and celebrate nature, but do not need to bend a knee...to what?

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I can relate to the idea. I think it's the new name for animism, which goes back a long way so it seems people are looking back in time because they've reached dead ends with modern thinking. I have Rupert Sheldrake to thank for anything I hear about it.

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Wasn't Pan the guy with cloven hooves who played the pipes ? 🙂

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If it means that “god” is a metaphor for all of existence, then I’m totally in sync with that. If it is interpreted to mean that the universe is a sentient being, then no. What impression do you get from your reading? I haven’t read much past Wikipedia.

skado Level 9 Jan 21, 2019
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Pantheism, from the Concise Oxford Dictionary 6th edition 1986, "Doctrine that God is everything and everything God".

It's bollocks.

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I am A-theist and reject the belief or idea of ANY gods, however you want to define them, as absurd.

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