....if so why?
....if not why?
just interested
2007-05-23 22:25:23 · 10 answers · asked by ? 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I'm all for it. Why not? Different paths suit different people, it's all the one Source anyway. With a wonderful variety of names and attributes!
2007-05-23 23:07:57 · answer #1 · answered by Orla C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some critics argue that pantheism is little more than a redefinition of the word "God" to mean "existence", "life" or "reality". Many pantheists reply that even if this is so, such a shift in the way we think about these ideas can serve to create both a new and a potentially far more insightful conception of both existence and God.
Perhaps the most significant debate within the pantheistic community is about the nature of God. Classical pantheism believes in a personal, conscious, and omniscient God, and sees this God as uniting all true religions. Naturalistic pantheism believes in an unconscious, non-sentient universe, which, while being holy and beautiful, is seen as being a God in a non-traditional and impersonal sense.
Cosmotheism, a small but controversial racialist group which considers itself a form of pantheism, has an evolutionary interpretation of God, seeing God to be impersonal, but not taking a clear stance as to its sentience. “Cosmotheism”, like the terms “pantheism”, “monotheism”, and “polytheism”, was not used in antiquity. The term seems to have been coined by Lamoignon de Malesherbes in 1782 with regard to Pliny the Elder; various scholars have used it since then, but to refer to different sorts of religious belief.
The viewpoints encompassed within the pantheistic community are necessarily diverse, but the central idea of the universe being an all-encompassing unity and the sanctity of both nature and its natural laws are found throughout. Some pantheists also posit a common purpose for nature and man, while others reject the idea of purpose and view existence as existing "for its own sake."
2007-05-24 07:25:30 · answer #2 · answered by KVISHWAS 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are accepting of all gods, how can you have a pantheist way of life? You would find many different and contradictory doctrines that could not all be practised.
I do not have any gods, there are none.
Consider the situation of mankind and all the troubles of the human race, if there were any god of any kind, they would not be worth bothering with, as clearly they have not bothered with us, or shown a caring nature. What parent would allow the hurt that mankind has endured to happen to any one of their children? A god that would allow such would be truly worthless.
Perhaps you should wonder if there are any gods?
2007-05-24 18:29:04 · answer #3 · answered by funnelweb 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I were religious, I would think it would be much better to have several gods to blame for unpopular events.
It seems to me that if there was only one god allowing the endless suffering on this planet our race is doomed to a miserable existance. With a god like that who the hell would want to go thru his pearly gates?
At least if there was a pantheon there might be a benevolent god that would step in and kick some divine ***!
2007-05-24 05:55:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, it's just as silly as monothesim, only more so!
I am against any theism. It really is the root of all evil,. There are no gods, only us, and the sooner the world accepts this very simple fact, the better!
2007-05-24 05:30:29 · answer #5 · answered by Avondrow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The doctrine of Pantheism is that everything (pan) is god. And so then nature is God or God is nature. Do you know what is the danger on this? If nature is destroyed, then God is also destroyed which is so very far from the essense of God, we can clearly read in the Bible. God is omnipotent, ompresent, omniscient, eternal life, absolute truthfulness, immutable, just, love, righteousness, and sovereign.
2007-05-24 09:48:22 · answer #6 · answered by periclesundag 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am personally against all form of religion or belief systems.
facts only are true.
we must try to reach the truth, through questions, experiments, doubts, not endorse, by essence, unproven beliefs, that don't really lead us anywhere.
we need reason and good ideas, neither lunacy nor faith.
well, i believe...
2007-05-25 04:50:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. We are told we must accept all religions and this is no different than believing in any other religion. What really matters is how people act towards others despite their religious beliefs.
2007-05-24 05:29:27 · answer #8 · answered by I Tisi 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No doubt anyone that is not religious would not agree that God and the Universe are one.
2007-05-24 05:35:37 · answer #9 · answered by brianthesnailuk2002 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm against it. What is it?
2007-05-24 05:28:15 · answer #10 · answered by fatherf.lotski 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋