As an apodictical existential pantheist I offer a view of God which might at least partially satisfy both skeptic and devout if not bring them together in intellectual embrace. What do California, Mother Love, Costco, Naziism, and God have in common and in fact to what degree can we assert that any of them even exists
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It’s clear that according to the general rule that nothing is entirely anything while everything is partly something else, there’s no clear dividing line separating reality (say, a rock) from the abstract (say, mother love). Any idea for instance seems pretty abstract though it evidently entails a concrete brain. At least the casual a2k participant might consider mine as concrete
Even though we think of it in corporeal terms Costco constitutes an ill-defined groupings of mumbling humanoids pushing keys and moving objects from one place to another. Ill-defined for instance in what sorts of creatures are involved; whether its membership for instance part of it
In the same vein Naziism was an arbitrary grouping of anthropoids in similar dressage fielding a black symbol on red cloth depriving another organism of its life based on a vaguely supposed difference in its genealogy whilst making loud guttural sounds with one limb outstretched toward a physically atypical specimen in sagging uniform
Thus according to the pantheist—my No. 2 Son and I in particular—if you equate the above entities with substance, then God is indeed very real, considering for instance the physical Universe as Her body and all the activity as the workings of Her mind
She is Christ as well as Hitler
Think of yourself as one of Her brain cells
That’s not to say by any means that we have all the answers; persisting an intuitional notion for instance that without us the entire Megillah seems a random and pointless bouncing of objects off one another; while still shrouded in inscrutability the mechanism by which the physical constants seem to have been adjusted—in some cases within a fraction of one percent--to permit our evolution
So yes my canonical brethren, I’ll readily concede there’s still something mysterious about it all