Originally Posted by
Xei
Regarding pantheism: it's meaningless, and if you think it is meaningful then you've been tricked by your own flimsy grasp of what language is. You call the universe 'God' and what new information have you obtained? Nothing. You're just as enlightened as if you called the universe 'Fred' or 'sponge' or 'the universe', or if you called England or rain 'God'. Words don't have objective meaning, they're just placeholders for what you already understand by the object they refer to. The universe will not suddenly take on the other meaning of the sound 'sponge' and become porous, nor will rain take on the other meaning of the guttural syllable 'God' and start setting fire to bushes.
In the same way by calling the universe 'God'... it's still just the universe. So what?