Non-theistic God Beliefs - WTF?
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theism, in the broadest sense, is understood as belief in at least one deity, so it's not surprising that when someone says deism or pantheism are not forms of theism it raises a few eyebrows. hopefully this will clear up the reason some god beliefs like #deism #pantheism #pandeism are not regarded as forms of #theism and we therefore have #nontheistic #god #belief
Either way you cut it, the existence of MIND is irrefutable, whether itβs in you or outside you, making either the Universe or you (most likely both) a God/dess.
Argument for Pandeism/Pantheism:
If everything depends on the Universe, but the Universe depends on nothing, then the Universe is for all intents and purposes a GOD/DESS!!!
To understand that Universe as such, is to WORSHIP it as such.
And that has reached its evolutionary apex in human beings in the form of highly sophisticated, acutely responsive, richly qualia-tative, HYPER-monitoring, Self-consciously rational, logical thinking, whose goal is to eventually produce a homeostatic, stable, even-handed, equitable state of affairs/dialectical synthesis among humans - a discourse of POWER BALANCE in Foucaultian terms.
I'm a weird mix of #polytheism (specifically hard polytheism) and #pandeism.
For those who don't know, pandeism is a belief that a creator deity became the universe and, thus, ceased to exist as a separate entity.
The combination of the two beliefs might seem really weird and it DOES make me go "???" at myself but the best way I've come to understand and conceptualize it is:
I believe there was a creator deity that became the universe and when they did so, their divinity spread onto all life within the universe.
This includes the gods. Thus, polytheism.
And this also does mean all life is divine to me, and that humans can tap into that divinity.
... At least, that's the best way I've come to understand it.
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