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Curmudgeoness

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15. I looked into what scientific pantheism is supposed to be.
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 05:26 PM
Apr 2016

Seemed like bunk to me. I love nature. I have calm and serene feelings when I am close to nature. But I have no spiritual connection to it. Maybe I was just finding definitions that made it sound like a religion to me. I doubt that Harris was a scientific pantheist in the way that it was described (at least by my google search).

I found a blog that stated my feelings well....

It seems that Naturalistic Pantheism is the choice of educated and perhaps intelligent people who are smart enough to acknowledge that all the current organized religions are absurd, yet still have some sort of need for a spiritual aspect to their lives. If you eliminate all the spiritual aspects of god or worship from naturalistic pantheism then all that remains is the base scientific knowledge and fact. In what possible way is this so insufficient that some people need to re-imagine the universe as a kind of entity? If I can have a deep wonder and respect for the universe without having to do so, surely others can as well? I understand that people have different ways of coping or looking at the world but this is just ridiculous.


https://allthatiswrong.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/why-naturalistic-pantheism-is-a-crock/

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