Pantheism: Difference between revisions

=== Tropes ===

* [[A God Am I]] or [[A God Is You]] are also invoked, since everyone is part of nature - but since it's everyone, no one person is elevated above the rest as a result.

** [[Insult Backfire|They say that as if it's a bad thing.]] Some Pantheists specifically object to using the word God, because everyone else expects it to have the personal, sentient meaning.

** This often leads to the confusion as to whether persons such as Einstein and Sagan, who expressed high levels of respect and wonder for nature, should be considered pantheists. As [[Richard Dawkins]] also expresses similar feelings regarding nature, it's entirely possible for one to feel about something as religious persons do about their faith without being religious.

* [[Cessation of Existence]]: Most monist physicalist, and many other Pantheists, agree that existence as an independent consciousness ends upon death, and that all parts return to the whole, though that whole can be anything from the physical universe to an over-soul.

* [[Flat Earth Atheist]] / [[Nay Theist]]: In an interesting twist on those tropes, an RPG campaign could involve a pantheist paladin with faith in nothing but the holiness of magic.

* [[Pieces of God]]: Pretty much the trope namer, though the standard Pantheist will believe that the pieces are all that there ever was, and still constitute some degree of a whole

** [[Pandeism]] claims that God destroyed itself to become our Universe (tho this may be only temporary) - Pantheism claims that the pieces are all that ever was and ever will be.