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I am seventy years old and have been a pantheist for many many years.
For me pantheism is not a religion but a philosophical/spiritual life's
way. The WWW has given pantheists a voice, but it also draws the wrath
of anthropocentric
religious zealots.
It really bothers me how petty and vengeful people can be when their
"faith" is challenged by the one who says "all that constitutes nature
is ultimate sacredness", or that " all anthropomorphic gods are simply
metaphors".
I have spoken up for the sacred web of all life so very many times on
the net, only to have my character slandered or be
flooded with viruses to my computer.
Christian folks speak endlessly of their children as their future, yet
they never give thought to mother earth being the only nursery ground
available for their religious procreation duties. What we wrongly do to
the earth and the remainder of nature, we in turn do to our own selves.
Earth as an illusional proving ground and temporary stop over on the way
to heaven seems to smack of a diminished capacity to reason!
Jim
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