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May 20 Pantheism.Pantheism believes that the universe and nature are worthy of the deepest religious reference.
Understanding them, appreciating their beauty and preserving nature should be the central focus of our lives.
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For Spinoza, God and nature were one. True religion was based not on dogma but on a feeling for the rationality and the unity underlying all finite and temporal things, on a feeling of wonder and awe that generates the idea of God, but a God that lacks any anthropomorphic conception.
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Einstein- about his cosmic religion:
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery- even mixed with fear- that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity.
In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man. I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existense-- as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.
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Stephan Hawking: Larry King (Dec. 1999) asks: "Do you believe in God?"
Stephan Hawking: "Yes - if by God is meant the embodiment of the laws of the universe".
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Mikhail Gorbachev: I believe in the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.
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Margaret Atwood: God is not the voice in the whirlwind, god is the whirlwind!
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So, my friends, you guessed it -- that's where I stand, when I refer to God or use the word God.
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