Avatar and the fight for pantheism!!

James Cameron's "Avatar" tells the story of a man whose views evolve completely through his time with an alien civilization, the Na'vi....

The inhabitants of this world live in spiritual communion with nature -- but not everyone sees the good in this.... A New York Times op-ed by Ross Douthat slammed the religion of the Na'vi.... Douthat identified their religion as pantheism, and attacked that faith with rabid ignorance....Yet another volley against reason-based faiths -- while responsible media outlets look the other way........as when Christian Smith invented the sham phrase "Moralistic Therapeutic Deism" to describe something that is not Deism at all........and as when blogger Mark Finkelstein labeled Al Gore and Barack Obama as pandeists....and ignorantly or deceitfully claimed pandeists "worship trees and brooks"........or even when Brit Hume publicly chided Tiger Woods to turn away from Buddhism, ignorantly dismissing a superior Buddhist spirituality....Theists would scream & cry & yell to no end if mainstream media outlets allowed anti-theist commentary like that!!So, they sure can dish it out.... but they sure can't take it!!

Pantheists, pandeists, deists, unite on this:
Let no ignorant attack on any reason-based faith pass unchallenged....
We will send them a message: That this.... this is OUR faith!!

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[coyoteself]

At the most basic, pantheism is simply the understanding that we are all connected. Not just to one another but to everything around, and within us. Even tho most pantheist are fairly spiritual, there is no Deity and in many cases no religion. Unlike many theistic beliefs, pantheism allows for a seamless blend of both science and spirituality where people live in harmony with one another and the world around them. Really quite simple

[PanDeism]

@coyoteself Indeed -- and so it is remarkable, and saddening, that there are people out there who make it their preoccupation to bash Pantheism because it goes against their theologically premised desires to blast science and destroy the harmony of the world.

[kailremsasar]

You got me thinking. Is faith only reserved to religion? Does not the scienties have faith that he's experiment will work or deliver the proof to a particular thesis? I suppose is a kind of different faith because is bases on observable and rational data, but until the results come to pass, is not Science also walking by faith? Is there any tru difference between beleif, such as the afterlife and theories such parallel universes? It seems to me they both exist on some sort of faith.

[PanDeism]

@kailremsasar If the scientist had such faith, he wouldn't need to perform the experiment -- but as to things which can only be hypothesised, not proved, I have not known any scientist to assure us that parallel universes exist, but only to claim that there might or might not be, based on theoretical models.... conversely I've not met people of a theistic faith conceding that it might or might not be true (but as Pandeism is probability based, pandeists know it might not be)....

[GeneralHoohah]

All religion that teaches faith, magical thinking, ignorance, etc (pretty much everything), is harmful and must be abolished.

[connerjd]

People can believe the way they want to believe, and anyone who has a problem with can go fuck themselves in the ass.

[Devin93H]

>_>

So what? the word Pantheism has the word theism in it.

Does that make it a theist belief? I didn't think so.

[Iconoclastithon]

@Iconoclastithon

CONT...

Words are somewhat malleable, but if deism as a philosophy is to be seen as rational, we must distinguish it from theism completely. If pantheism is to make internal sense...it should be called what the word suggests -a 'theism".

We unfortunately live in a species based on language, dictinctions and hair splitting are important for this, if language is to make sense

[Iconoclastithon]

@Iconoclastithon

CONT...

I'm making a clearer cut dictinction when I said what I said. It makes a lot more sense to admit Pantheism to be well...THEISM{pan}, and Deism as a seperate unique rational category.

Sci was saying that PanTheism was non-theiostic{which is absurd...panTHEISM} and that Deism is a form of theism{but it aint,}, deism is DEISM[all types; including PanDeism], theism is theism{all types including PanTheism}.

CONT...

[Iconoclastithon]

@Iconoclastithon

CONT...

I'm making a clearer cut dictinction when I said what I said. It makes a lot more sense to admit Pantheism to be well...THEISM{pan}, and Deism as a seperate unique rational category.

Sci was saying that PanTheism was non-theiostic{which is absurd...panTHEISM} and that Deism is a form of theism{but it aint,}, deism is DEISM[all types; including PanDeism], theism is theism{all types including PanTheism}.

CONT...