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deacon_sephiroth

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4. Then why call it god?

Mon Mar 12, 2012, 02:18 PM

Mar 2012

The picture you paint is a pantheistic one.

If this nebulous energy diety does exist, I can't see what meaning it would give to anything, nor why it requires personification, prayer, worship, etc. What you suggest would be tantimount to just another process of life the universe and everything.

Unless I'm missing something in your possibly over-simplified suggestion, such a "diety" would be no more powerful or personal than gravity.

Is it neccisary? Absolutely!
Does it operate virtually everywhere, and act upon everything though sometimes too small to notice? Indeed.
Is it critical to life, and possibly even creditable for it's part in life's creation? yes
Do we pray to it, worship it, legislate it, personify it? no, why would we?

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