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Universism: A progressive natural philosophy
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/48725136-c1ed-4cc1-8cc8-59faf816b19a/9BCECC18-8372-4F97-A68E-D41673986C84/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.religioustolerance.org/universism.htm" href="http://www.religioustolerance.org/universism.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.religioustolerance.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.religioustolerance.org/universism.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.religioustolerance.org/img/3D9157A0-0B68-488D-9326-4F5701C05138" alt="Web site logo" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.religioustolerance.org/universism.htm"><B><B>Universism: </B>A progressive natural philosophy.</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.religioustolerance.org/universism.htm"><FONT face="trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica">Universism was a progressive natural philosophy. As of mid-2007. it has disbanded and is no longer active. We are retaining this essay because it was once an honest effort to unite five traditional freethinking approaches to religious questions: </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.religioustolerance.org/universism.htm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="100%" valign="top"><FONT face="trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica"><B>Atheism</B> – There is no God. Or, the question is irrelevant.</FONT></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.religioustolerance.org/universism.htm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="100%" valign="top"><FONT face="trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica"><B>Deism</B> – There is a God, and I can determine this through reason.</FONT></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.religioustolerance.org/universism.htm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="100%" valign="top"><FONT face="trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica"><B>Pantheism</B> – God and the Universe are the same.</FONT></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.religioustolerance.org/universism.htm"><FONT face="trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica"><B>Agnosticism</B> – People cannot rationally determine whether there is a God or not, so it is pointless to even try.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.religioustolerance.org/universism.htm"><FONT face="trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica"><B>Transcendentalism</B> – God or transcendent ultimate reality can be understood intuitively through experiencing nature and art.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.religioustolerance.org/universism.htm"><P>All of these approaches center on your personal view of God. The <I>Universist Alternative</I> places emphasis on the attitude and spirit in which you address religious questions, and the tools you use to do so, rather than focusing on any conclusions that you may arrive at.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.religioustolerance.org/universism.htm"><H3>Universist Ways of Knowing:</H3></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9BCECC18-8372-4F97-A68E-D41673986C84/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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