NobleSavage
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Could it be reconciled with atheism? My biggest hangup is all the suffering in the world.
If by pantheism, you mean that every single thing that exists is part of the divine being? Sure. A god-concept so far-ranging as to make it meaningless? That's a friendly version of noncognitivism.Could it be reconciled with atheism?
But atheism can entail believing in mind/intellect as something not derived from matter.
But atheism can entail believing in mind/intellect as something not derived from matter.
So?
The word was originally coined to describe Spinoza's philosophy.
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So, a spiritual atheist may be called or call himself a pantheist. This shows that indeed pantheism is not necessarily incompatible with atheism.
Pantheism is the belief that "All" is god. Atheism is the lack of belief in god. There is no compatibility between any theism and atheism.
That sounds more like Deism.Pantheism is theism for theists who don't like arguing about theism. If you take away every single one of the properties of God, then God has zero illogical properties and all the arguments for or against him are meaningless. No matter what it is that someone says to argue that God doesn't exist, they can simply respond that that argument isn't relevant because it doesn't refer to the God they're talking about.
It can basically be summed up as "God exists because ... because fuck you, that's why".
So, a spiritual atheist may be called or call himself a pantheist. This shows that indeed pantheism is not necessarily incompatible with atheism.
That sounds more like Deism.Pantheism is theism for theists who don't like arguing about theism. If you take away every single one of the properties of God, then God has zero illogical properties and all the arguments for or against him are meaningless. No matter what it is that someone says to argue that God doesn't exist, they can simply respond that that argument isn't relevant because it doesn't refer to the God they're talking about.
It can basically be summed up as "God exists because ... because fuck you, that's why".
Pantheism is the belief that "All" is god. Atheism is the lack of belief in god. There is no compatibility between any theism and atheism.
Technically, you are correct. So a spiritual atheist should call himself just that. I'm just saying that someone who calls himself a pantheist may in fact be a spiritual atheist.
But atheism can entail believing in mind/intellect as something not derived from matter.
But atheism can entail believing in mind/intellect as something not derived from matter.
To have a mind is to be distinct and separated from the universe.
It is the opposite of being one with the universe.