Integrative Deism-Pantheism by my definition integrates the 'spiritual-romantic-natural' part of religion without all the 'orthodox trappings' that lead to over-righteousness, 'either/or' divisions of people, and narcissistic 'either you believe or you don't believe' boundaries. In this deist-pantheist view, God, Nature, Man, Creation, and Evolution are all wholistically connected -- or at least have the potential to be -- without 'God saying this', and 'God saying that' (as interpreted by the person who says that God is doing the talking through him or her. No such person exists in my opinion who has a direct line to God -- even though a million and one different people might say they do). In this integrative deist-pantheist view, God is the bridge -- or at least the potential bridge -- between all people through the dialectic -- I and Thou, here and now -- and through the meaningful value of their natural world around them as God created it, not as man is polluting and destroying it...
-- dgb, May 27th, 2008
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