polytheistic pantheism and weak atheism/Spinoza?

[David Dalton]

As I have mentioned in another thread on alt.atheism,
I consider myself to be a polytheistic pantheist.
My eight main deities, which are defined on
http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/deities.html ,
are ALL, LOVE2, Universe, Galaxy, Sun, Earth,
Moon, and Human. (Unlike some Wiccans, I do
not consider all of my deities other than ALL
to be aspects of ALL, just subsets of ALL.)

Currently I believe that all eight have consciousness
and I worship them (consider them deities to me).

If I didn't believe that they had consciousness
then I would be an atheist. In that case LOVE2
would be replaced by a message of love and Human
would be replaced by humanism, and I would
just revere and study the other six without
considering them as someones. This I consider
strong atheism.

But a few years ago I decided that they had
consciousness (existed as someones) but that
I would no longer worship them, that they were
no longer deities with respect to me. This
I consider weak atheism.

However these days I do worship them and consider
myself to be in a religion of one and am not
recruiting. I am pushing some non-religious
messages but I am not pushing my deities on
anyone. And these days I am not far from
returning to weak atheism or even strong atheism.
I have been an atheist for a good chunk of my
life, though I was raised Catholic.

Was Spinoza an atheist?

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[Christopher A. Lee]

On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 00:14:37 -0330, David Dalton <dal...@nfld.com>
wrote:

>As I have mentioned in another thread on alt.atheism,
>I consider myself to be a polytheistic pantheist.
>My eight main deities, which are defined on
>http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/deities.html ,
>are ALL, LOVE2, Universe, Galaxy, Sun, Earth,
>Moon, and Human. (Unlike some Wiccans, I do
>not consider all of my deities other than ALL
>to be aspects of ALL, just subsets of ALL.)
>
>Currently I believe that all eight have consciousness
>and I worship them (consider them deities to me).

Why don't you save yourself time and effort, and just say "Hey, world,
I am a fucking moron"?

[snip idiocy]