{"id":28862,"date":"2015-03-22T06:50:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T10:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=28862"},"modified":"2015-03-22T06:50:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T10:50:20","slug":"is-panentheism-atheism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/03\/is-panentheism-atheism.html","title":{"rendered":"Is Panentheism Atheism?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/iframe>\n<\/p>In the video above, <a href=\"http:\/\/henryneufeld.com\/threads\/2015\/02\/27\/are-panentheists-atheists\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Henry Neufeld<\/a> asks a question which was also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/2015\/02\/is-this-atheism.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">discussed here on this blog<\/a> recently: is panentheism atheism?<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2015\/03\/10\/what-would-a-secular-god-look-like-an-atheist-searches-for-a-realistic-higher-power-in-this-new-book\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Hemant Mehta<\/a> also discussed a book by Nancy Abrams, about a God that atheists might be able to\u00a0embrace. The book is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0807073393\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0807073393&linkCode=as2&tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&linkId=YZVMUFTNGCIIKX43\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">A God That Could Be Real: Spirituality, Science, and the Future of Our Planet<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0807073393\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\">.<\/i><\/p>\nSee also the discussion on that same blog of how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2015\/03\/10\/god-is-the-ultimate-alpha-male\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">human religion tends to think of God as akin to the alpha male in primate societies<\/a>.<\/p>\nSee too <a href=\"http:\/\/approachingjustice.net\/2015\/03\/13\/god-as-personal-but-not-a-person\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dwight Welch\u2019s contribution<\/a> to a multi-person conversation, in which he suggests that God may be personal but not a person.<\/p>\nSince sharing the first of the videos above, Henry Neufeld shared another video on a related topic, <a href=\"http:\/\/henryneufeld.com\/threads\/2015\/03\/10\/christianity-and-panentheism-youtube-video\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">panentheism and Christianity<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0807073393\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0807073393&linkCode=as2&tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&linkId=YZVMUFTNGCIIKX43\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0807073393&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=jamefmcgrshom-20\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0807073393\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the video above, Henry Neufeld asks a question which was also discussed here on this blog recently: is panentheism atheism? 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