A person who believes all that is, and all that exists, and all that has happened- The very essance of nature and the way the world happens, due to the will of nothing more than natural random occurances, is god. Technically these people are atheists, they aren't theistic and don't believe in a supreme Deity; BUT they believe god is a term used to describe everything in existance...Help?
2007-10-27 18:29:09 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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Pantheist is probably the name your looking for.... but why in the world would one wish to rename everything that's included in reality and choose needlessly to call it something else ?
If a Pantheist believes that everything which "is" is real, isn't that simply called 'reality' rather than God ? It seems to me that renaming all reality as something else, god or whatever, is just a cop, making it just a game of semantics. Acht... but what do I know? I'm just an atheist who doesn't like to be confused by such a loaded word as "God" when I see no reason to believe there is such a thing to begin with.
There is an eastern Indian idea that everything is connected, as if by a web - one as delicate as a spider's web - and at the ends of each ray of the web surrounding every entity of reality imaginable there is a knot and that knot glows like a jewel whenever it's disturbed. This idea goes on to suggest the notion that we are, and everything is, a part of this web and it asks us to reason that each movement of each and every individual or thing connected by a thread on the web will cause a vibration across the entire network of threads causing all of the glowing jewels to become excited and glow at once. I've forgotten the name given to this Indian concept, but the name is unimportant. The bottom line is that the idea is yet another fanciful notion of brotherhood and interconnectedness. It has it's merits, of course, but it also has it's shortcomings. The idea tells us that we can be connected in harmony but it in no way guarantees it.... so what good does a fanciful notion do us ? None.
I see the notion of God in any form or under any definition as being a mere fancy without substance. As handsome as it all may sound and as beautiful a picture it might paint, whether it is described according to Pantheism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism or anything else, the notion of God still offers no guarantees of harmony between differing peoples.
Pantheism is merely another way of applying the the word "God" unrealistically to a reality that has no God and really doesn't need one. Atheism is the correct conclusion.
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2007-10-27 21:26:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What you're describing really isn't a denomination as such, but amounts to what is called "New Age" philosophy - the idea that the universe itself and everything in it is "God".
This idea has roots in Eastern mysticism and Eastern religious thought.
2007-10-27 18:43:44 · answer #2 · answered by the phantom 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Naturalist? But not the naked people.. the spirituality. Or just Nature Worship should work. Any friends I have like that just call themselves spiritualist but thats not very specific.
2007-10-27 18:40:45 · answer #3 · answered by Heather R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unitarians
2007-10-27 18:34:18 · answer #4 · answered by SafetyDancer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Confused?
2007-10-27 18:33:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pantheist
Here's more information of it.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pantheism/
2007-10-27 18:32:21 · answer #6 · answered by Pangloss (Ancora Imparo) AFA 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do not think it is a christian denomination so I have no idea.
2007-10-27 18:33:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
pantheist. ??
2007-10-27 18:37:16 · answer #8 · answered by the_silverfoxx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please read the chapter first.
2007-10-27 18:32:32 · answer #9 · answered by bobanalyst 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋