naturalistic pantheism...

have been thinking about this for a while. time to share it with you. naturalistic pantheism...

...is a form of pantheism that holds that the Universe, although unconscious and non-sentient as a whole, behaves as a single, interrelated, and solely natural substance. Accordingly, Nature is seen as being what religions call “God” only in a non-traditional (i.e., a traditional conception equates with a distinct being that features Omnipotence, Omniscience, and Omnibenevolence), impersonal sense, where the terms Nature and God are synonymous. Therefore, naturalistic pantheism is also known as “impersonal pantheism” and “impersonal absolutism,” and does not posit any form of supernatural belief.

ie: On the atomic level, we’re all made up of the same things. The sun, the earth, you, me, your pet, your desk, your computer; It’s all the same thing when you get down to it. At one point in time the particles were brought together by gravity, became burning hot inside of a sun, which eventually exploded, sending the particles all across the galaxy. Gravity brought the clouds of particles together, which eventually formed the earth, and us and them and that. We’re all part of one big process, we’re all in the most basic sense, the same. In the same way the atoms that make up our bodies; In one view they’re individuals, but in a broader perspective, they make up us.