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What is your faith/religion? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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and if you atheist/switched faiths, why did you do it and what faith did you choose?

im in a curious mood today :>

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Could you explain further

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Pantheism basically. The universe literally is god.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It’s more of a philosophical god than a being with consciousness. He said that god is “the sum of the natural and physical laws of the universe and certainly not an individual entity or creator.” Simplified, everything in existence is god, but individual things are not god on their own. That point is an important distinction between Spinoza’s god and animism.

Perceiving god as more of the framework of existence itself is a very compelling way for me to appreciate the connection of all things, without accepting a bearded man in the sky or encroaching on my scientific understanding.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I've not read Spinoza, but this idea has for most of my life seemed fairly self-evident. Something clearly seems to exist, I'm not the biggest most important thing in the something, though I am a part of it. Do I believe in God? Not per se - but I do believe there is something incomprehensibly larger than I am, and that in and of itself deserves a little respect and contemplation.

My religious parents didn't see it that way of course.