What kind of pantheist are you?

[Quintessence]

Agnosticism is just a qualifier that can be stuck on any theological belief that expresses uncertainty regarding our capacity to have knowledge about god(s). In a pantheistic context, I would generally interpret it in one of a few ways and ask the person to clarify:

1) The person is agnostic with respect to non-pantheistic concepts of god(s), particularly the culturally dominating classical monotheism.
2) The person is agnostic with respect to the human ability to know and understand reality/god(s)/universe/nature.
3) The person is not attached to using the word god(s) to describe reality/universe/nature.

I mean, I'm fundamentally agnostic on all questions of knowledge with respect to #2, whether I'm talking a theological view like pantheism or a science like chemistry. Humans have limits, and I don't make claims of Truth because of that.

 

[Straw Dog]

It's difficult to say. I'm almost a naturalistic pantheist, but I don't really believe in any single fundamental substance. Something can be physical without technically being a material essence. Furthermore, I suspect that there has always been complex manifold processes acting together to produce what we perceive as "existence" rather than a few select substances. At any rate, reality probably isn't as simple as I'd prefer it to be.

 

[Pann]

i am my natural self. Pan means all, i am nature and thats cool

 

[Pann]

over thinking it is a downer, it just distracts you, from whats going on right now.

 

[nash8]

According to the quiz on this thread, I'm an agnostic dualist pantheist/animist.

Lol, i was a literal pagan/new age/animist with minors in idealistic, dualistic panthiesm and panenthiesm. I have to say It pretty accurately portrayed my beliefs though.

As much as I don't wan't to admit that I'm a new age crazy person, I guess I need to face the fact that I am lol. Realization through online religion quizzes, it doesn't get any better than that lol.

 

[biased]

Monotheistic Panentheist
:angel2:

 

[DreadFish]

According to the quiz crossfire linked, I am a literal pagan/new age /animist (not sure how I can be each of those things when they are not synonymous, especially the new age), then naturalistic pantheist and then idealistic pantheist.

I hate the term "new age" but I always get it in these quizzes

If I were really trying to label the way I see the world, I would replace "pantheist" in both of those results with "panentheist", but im really trying to clean the storage room of all that junk, so I put those results in the trash

Using those labels to describe my views makes everything feel grey and lifeless, its fake.

 

[biased]

According to the quiz crossfire linked, I am a literal pagan/new age /animist (not sure how I can be each of those things when they are not synonymous, especially the new age), then naturalistic pantheist and then idealistic pantheist.

I hate the term "new age" but I always get it in these quizzes

If I were really trying to label the way I see the world, I would replace "pantheist" in both of those results with "panentheist", but im really trying to clean the storage room of all that junk, so I put those results in the trash

Using those labels to describe my views makes everything feel grey and lifeless, its fake.

Just took that quiz; 100% Panentheist match hehe

 

[BlackAce]

What kind of Pantheist are you?

A confused one.

I was raised in a tradition of Non Wiccan Witchcraft which basically teaches that The Goddess IS The Material Universe. Nature is Sacred, Holy and Divine and deserves a religious Reverence, Respect and Honor. All natural life that exists (animals, trees, plants, flowers, bees, storms, snakes and even disease) is part of the Natural Cycle and deserves this.

The Goddess was always seen to me as the balancing forces in Nature, The chaos and the calm, the creation and the destruction, the healing and the disease and since she was not a conscious being (at least as I was raised) she was unaware of herself and what she did to us or for us, what mattered was our understandings and our relationship to The Cosmos.

When we did ritual, The rituals were for US to connect to Nature and to ourselves.

So, where am I confused you ask?

Well....I have been a Unitarian Universalist for some years now which in turn led me to see the truth, wisdom and knowledge in all religions and cultures, I began to think outside the box and explore what I might not know much about or be afraid of and this led me to Satanism.

Satanism has taught me quite a bit about my thoughts and practices and one idea is that I only find Nature aesthetically pleasing and do not really believe it's sacred and I have to wonder if that is true, do I believe what I wrote above? Am I just repeating what has been drilled into my head by my aunt and sister who are both Witches?

An example I was given last night is that if I owned acres of wetland where birds and other animals lived and someone offered me millions of dollars to sell that land so condos could be built, would I do it? I would because I LOVE money and the wetland has no personal meaning to me....

So, it would seem obvious that I am not really a believer as I was raised to be, I do not hold Nature as all that important, right?

Then I do my evening ritual and I read my current devotional which is on Nature and The divinity found in Nature and I feel connected to what I am reading, I light my candles and incense, I open the window and look up at the stars and watch the wind rustle through the leaves of the tree outside, I feel connected to Nature and am in awe of it...

And please, No comments on how I sound confused and how I am intermixing Pagan rituals into Satanism, I know I do that, I have always and will always consider myself an Eclectic Satanist, I follow the teachings and practices of Satanism while having Pagan based rituals, That is just who I am and that is not likely to change and I am not confused because of the interfaith situation I am in.

Just confused about whether or not I truly believe nature is sacred...any ideas?

 

[StarryNightshade]

I'm not sure.

I do believe in God, but I don't believe it is personal. It is an infinite reality that encompasses everything that we know of and possibly more. Our prayers to it and other rituals and practices are our ways as humans to experience it. To put finite characteristics to the infinite to try and understand it better.

I'm also influenced by the philosophies of individuals such as Spinoza, Tillich and Mordecai Kaplan.

So...I guess Transnaturalistic Pantheism with Idealistic tendencies?

 

[Vouthon]

I took the quiz and my score was 100% Panentheist.

 

[StarryNightshade]

I decided to take the quiz as well. I scored 100% with "Agnostic Pantheist" and 90% with "Deist".

Although, considering how limited and black and white the questions are, I'm taking these scores with a grain of salt.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

I'm all for changing my answer from earlier, but unsure how to explain the nature of God through my opinion, for it's sort of nature itself, but it's sort of the order of nature but not exactly nature, hard to explain.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

I took the quiz and my score was 100% Panentheist.

Same.

 

[Willamena]

*bump* for current interest in the topic

 

[Valjean]

Hey! Quit shoving!

 

[idav]

*bump* for current interest in the topic

Not sure I like my wording from two years ago, meh. It was decent.

 

[Willamena]

Not sure I like my wording from two years ago, meh. It was decent.

I love that descriptions evolve.

 

[Desert Snake]

took the quiz, but I got tie scores on some -isms. says i'm a deist, but I don't think so.

 

[Valjean]

Don't need any quiz.
The world we perceive violates the laws of physics. We're dreaming it.
There's only one consciousness. Diversity is an illusion.