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<blockquote data-quote="Rosco..Jones" data-source="post: 86496" data-attributes="member: 2729"><p><span style="color: #59b300">Interesting topic with many views from different perspectives. First I want to clarify my understanding for some of the terms being used in comments here.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #59b300"><span style="color: #ffffff"><strong>God</strong></span> is a being conceived as the perfect, omnipotent, omniscient originator and ruler of the universe, the principal object of faith and worship in monotheistic religions.</span><span style="color: #59b300"></span></p><p><span style="color: #59b300"></span></p><p><span style="color: #59b300"><span style="color: #ffffff"><strong>Theism</strong></span> states that the existence and continuance of the universe is owed to one supreme Being, who is distinct from Creation. For this reason, theism proclaims a dualistic relation between God and the world, wherein God is a being who controls events from outside of the human world.</span></p><p><span style="color: #59b300"></span></p><p><span style="color: #59b300"><span style="color: #ffffff"><strong>Antitheism</strong></span> is a non-comparable term referring to the belief that theism and religion are not only <em>very</em> likely to be invalid and false, but that they are restricting, dangerous, primitive, and offer no unique benefits.</span></p><p></p><p><strong>Atheism</strong><span style="color: #59b300"> is the critique and denial of <a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/377923/metaphysics" target="_blank">metaphysical</a> <a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/281802/idealism" target="_blank">beliefs</a> in God or spiritual beings.</span></p><p><span style="color: #59b300"></span></p><p><span style="color: #59b300">I was a little more than surprised to find that I would consider myself to be an Antitheist, but not an Atheist. I do believe in the metaphysical, life before birth and after death and being part of a multidimensional reality with simultaneous time in which consciousness exists on many levels of organization. <u>But</u>, I do not believe in the personified "God" of organized religions, that rules the universe, hands out rewards/punishments and demands worship or face eternal damnation. It seems with all religions they make you out to be flawed in some way. In many ways the belief systems instilled in many followers can do them more harm than good.</span></p><p><span style="color: #59b300"></span></p><p><span style="color: #59b300">The Gods we have are ones that we create in our own image. My view is God being the Gestalt of all that is on every level. God is not something apart, but a part of everything and everything has a part in making God what it is.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rosco..Jones, post: 86496, member: 2729"] [COLOR=#59b300]Interesting topic with many views from different perspectives. First I want to clarify my understanding for some of the terms being used in comments here.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#59b300][COLOR=#ffffff][B]God[/B][/COLOR] is a being conceived as the perfect, omnipotent, omniscient originator and ruler of the universe, the principal object of faith and worship in monotheistic religions.[/COLOR][COLOR=#59b300] [COLOR=#ffffff][B]Theism[/B][/COLOR] states that the existence and continuance of the universe is owed to one supreme Being, who is distinct from Creation. For this reason, theism proclaims a dualistic relation between God and the world, wherein God is a being who controls events from outside of the human world.[B][/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=#59b300][B][/B] [COLOR=#ffffff][B]Antitheism[/B][/COLOR] is a non-comparable term referring to the belief that theism and religion are not only [I]very[/I] likely to be invalid and false, but that they are restricting, dangerous, primitive, and offer no unique benefits.[/COLOR] [B]Atheism[/B][COLOR=#59b300] is the critique and denial of [URL='http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/377923/metaphysics']metaphysical[/URL] [URL='http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/281802/idealism']beliefs[/URL] in God or spiritual beings. I was a little more than surprised to find that I would consider myself to be an Antitheist, but not an Atheist. I do believe in the metaphysical, life before birth and after death and being part of a multidimensional reality with simultaneous time in which consciousness exists on many levels of organization. [U]But[/U], I do not believe in the personified "God" of organized religions, that rules the universe, hands out rewards/punishments and demands worship or face eternal damnation. It seems with all religions they make you out to be flawed in some way. In many ways the belief systems instilled in many followers can do them more harm than good. The Gods we have are ones that we create in our own image. My view is God being the Gestalt of all that is on every level. God is not something apart, but a part of everything and everything has a part in making God what it is.[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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