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Hi Rashid
You are asking me two different things. Belief in a monotheistic god would be
akin to belief in a personal god and would qualify as irrational simply by
creating the irresolvable paradox of evil, along with creating a host of
other anomalies. The greatest challenge to the existence of a monotheistic
god is a moral one in my opinion. If God is the source of everything then
he is the source of evil as well. I for one do not buy these glib
explanations about mankind being put here for some grand cosmic purpose.
The pantheistic faiths do not speak to the
pressing issues faced by humanity, i.e. the abject poverty, the treachery
and destruction and so forth. They are perhaps a bit more cerebral than the
monotheistic faiths in largely avoiding humankind's perennial conundrum of
the "how" and "why" of our being. Moreover they attempt
to understand "reality" through observable phenomena. This does
not mean I am preaching pantheism. My interest in it is entirely academic.
cheers,
Farzana
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