What are your thoughts, positive or negative, on Pantheism?

Nature and all its imperfections do not suggest a god, at least any god I have read about. I think people’s insecurity about the natural universe inspires them to impart attributes to nature that it simply does not have. As WellTraveled has already stated, nature is nature. I personally feel we should all have to emotional stability to accept that fact and stop trying to bend the natural universe to fit our expectations of it. Accept the universe for what it is, not what we want it to be.

I am a strong believer in the combination of nature being God and God being nature. The creation emulates the Creator. There is no question nature has creative forces and is part of God.

To argue that if nature had a Creator God must also have a Creator is not logical. Can you present what evidence God needs a Creator is based on. I haven't heard anyone do it yet.

Is God a known quantity? If He isn't what do you base that thought on? If unknown we must decide what He really is based on what we know and this will never be very accurate because we know so little but just to say something doesn't exist because we don't fully understand it is certainly detrimental. A lot of things exist that we do not understand.

I'm neutral, since that is as close as a "believe" as I'll go. The Earth is our home and instead of making a fantasy land in our head about the after life we need to care about the here and the now...I however don't see the earth as god, because the earth does exist. I guess Pantheism can be interpret as a kind of atheism.

The thing about it is this; nature is the perfect working of a perfect God, and all of nature reflects his glory. Don't get confused about God needing a creator, time is not something that applies to God, there is no 'before' or 'after' where God is concerned, and that (to our minds) is incomprehensible. The bible DOES explain all of this, if you are humble enough to understand that faith requires that you develop the courage to leave to God all that you don't understand. Perfect faith is the acceptance of the limitations of the human mind. God will provide all that you need. If you need to know a thing, you will know it, if you do not, you will not. Find peace in the fact that God understands. Therefore WE don't need to.

Goethe was a pantheist, and cause I knew that I got good notes in literature. So I only have positive memories of pantheism.

Though someone I knew misinterpreted this and ruined his notes. Well, he was never goot at literature anyways.

I'm not really opposed to the concept but if "god" is nature then why call it god?

Nature is nature -- why give it the name "god" to imply attributes it doesn't have, like will or thought or anything else?

Peace.

I am neutral on Pantheism.

There's no evidence for the supernatural.

In Pantheism, all of physics is supernatural.

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