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Originally Posted by Der Fuhrer
This thread has become an abomination. It has fallen so far from its original purpose, which is to discuss and debate the existence of God, NOT to question, ridicule, and harass BDH because of his beliefs.
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This.
We're not getting anywhere. Why don't we take this thread in a different direction? Is anyone familiar with Pantheism? I think if I were ever to believe in "God" it would be something like this. Of course, it pretty much requires a new definition of God, but I'm okay with that.
I first discovered Pantheism in an American literature class. We were reading works by Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, etc...That era of American writing is known as the Transcendental period (comparable to the English Romantic period). They wrote about things we still talk about today - self reliance, man's oneness with nature, understanding life through experience (rather than just reading about it) individualism, and so on. A lot of the issues they wrote about are particularly relevant in today's America.
Some of the works they're responsible for are Moby Dick, Civil Disobedience, The Scarlett Letter, and Nature - pretty influential stuff.
Here's a link to Pantheism for anyone interested:
Pantheism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And one to Transcendentalism:
Transcendentalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia