Saturday, June 5, 2010

Pantheism

For most of my life I've been bouncing between beliefs and theologies. No religion out there really seems right; I don't think any collection of ideas can form a religion for more than one person. The idea of a mass amount of people feeling compelled to believe the same thing, and have their beliefs shaped by anything but their own perception of the universe vexes me. See IntoleRANT VagRANT CorroboRANT, Are We There Yet? and "A Humble Admiration of the Illimitable Superior Spirit" - actually most of my blog is centred around this inward search for a knowledge of nothing.
A couple of weeks ago I discovered a religion that (although my belief is still slightly different, it) is the closest yet: Pantheism. Pantheism comes from pan (all) + theos (God) = literally, all is God. However, this discovery was not the result of a soul-sapping search, or spiritual epiphany; I found it accidentally as I was typing "Pantheon" into my computer's dictionary.

The irony.

If you would like to know more, see here.

Catholics have Catholicism. Buddhists have Buddhism. I hope those who believe in Pantheism are Panthers.

Heraclitus Ethanus..

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