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Thread #111615   Message #2354880
Posted By: theleveller
02-Jun-08 - 03:35 AM
Thread Name: BS: Creating a new Religion? This is the one
Subject: RE: BS: Creating a new Religion? This is the one
Les, sounds like you've discovered the religion of Pantheism, which I love because:

a. It isn't a religion
b. It has nothing to do with Pan

Ha, that'll confuse the theists.

It does, however state that:

Are you searching for a path that focuses on this Earth rather than some imaginary beyond, that makes saving the planet its focus not saving your eternal soul, that respects individual choice rather than pushing prejudice down people's throats, that values reason rather than fanaticism?
    Do you find it impossible to believe in supernatural beings, and difficult to conceive of anything more worthy of reverence than the beauty of Nature or the power of the Universe?
    Do you feel a deep sense of peace and belonging and wonder in the midst of Nature, in a forest, by the ocean, or on a mountain top? Are you speechless with awe when you look up at the sky on a clear moonless night and see the Milky Way strewn with stars as thick as sand on a beach? When you see breakers crashing on a rocky shore, or hear wind rustling in a poplar's leaves, are you uplifted by the energy and creativity of existence?
    If you answered yes to these questions, then you will feel thoroughly at home in the World Pantheist Movement.


There you go! Persoanlly, I'll just go and sit by Fairy Calls Beck on the North York Moors and listen to the little folk (or should that be, A little folk?).