Where has atheism and theism gone wrong about deity?

work in progress.

     Atheism can only be true if all deities do not exist.

     Atheism has been wrong in estimating deity as a quantity only.  Atheism generally claims that deities are non-existent or having zero reality.  This claim for the most part has been aimed at the so call pure deities in other word a being that is 100% deity.  Not so much for beings that are less than 100% deity, suppose a being is ¾, ½, ¼, or one part per 1,000,000 and so on deified or a being is engaged in activities or a process that are or maybe deifying it’s in some way. 

  Atheism's claim is then wrong that deities are non-existent or having zero reality, if the merest activity or process in the slightest way makes a being deified either physically, mentally or otherwise.  Deity under these considerations is not limited to quantities alone but to qualities also that a human being can have that is not a 100% deity but act with the qualities that make it somewhat a deified human being.   Someone that has free will by circumstances and or their own actions  demonstrates the way a person by circumstances and or their own actions are deified in quality.  

      A deified being however slight the deification is in quantity or quality represents the reality of deity as an actuality in our world.  In this sense the intellectual, moral, social, physical or otherwise deification of the human beings represents the reality of deity but not directly the existence of any particular 100% deity.  However atheism is the rejection of deities existence in the past, present and possible future, is theism focus on 100% deity the source of atheism's error? No atheism is responsible for its own error, the assumption of the permanent zero-existence of any forms of deity.

     Theism can only be true if its deity(s) exist.

     Theism's have been wrong in estimating some of the characteristics and mode of deity. Theism’s in general has viewed deities as super permanent realities to the point of absurdity or having a top down view of the reality deities.   What is a being that is 100% deity? According too much theism it is a being that is absolutely its own reality or a permanent self-sufficient being.  So much so that deities exist only at the highest levels of reality necessarily, which creates a disconnection from the lower levels of reality. 

     As a permanent self-sufficient reality, primarily deity would be an extremely permanent 100% being.  Theism has gone wrong in making deities have permanent characteristics thereby removing deity’s fundamental freedom and its free modality; deities are then permanent static beings. In this way theism “kills” its own deity and worships a permanent theological corpus deity as a real thing. Theism error is the assumption of the permanent 100% deified being. 

A Cosmology of Mononaturalism

work in progress

A Cosmology of Mononaturalism¹

Mono-naturalism is a belief that there can be only one all-inclusive ultimate nature or reality, which may contain divine beings (God, gods, demigods, saints…) but it is not a divine being itself.  This means that the mono-nature is beyond being a god, in this sense it is a Transtheism.

My personal position on Mono-naturalism is as follows; a simultaneous relativistic neutral freely existing perpetually changing natural monism:

It is a simultaneous monism nether the whole or parts have absolute priority over each other.  It is relativistic in that all things within it are relative to reach other and the whole.  It is neutral in that it has an absolutely simple single neutral fundamental relative substance, which is not completely given to being any one type of substance.  It freely exists in that it ‘just is’ without depending on something to cause it, it did not cause itself or was it caused by something other than itself.  It is perpetually changing in that change is the fundamental process of its existence, by changing into something similar itself.  It is a natural monism in that it is the only all-inclusive ultimate reality, which may contain divine beings.

Descriptive look at my Mono-naturalism, It is a simultaneous monism by holding the position that nether the whole or parts has absolute priority over each other; each is the source of the other.  This means that no whole (cosmos) exist completely absent of part(s) and no part(s) exist completely separate from a whole, the whole and the parts are impossible without each other.  Or stated simply, no cosmos can exist without parts and no cosmic parts can exist completely separate from the cosmos, both depend on each other for their existence simultaneously. If one accepts the big bang theory, the universe starts as an infinitely small singularity that expands into a universe with its own proper parts.  Simultaneous monism assumes that the parts and the whole are simultaneous reciprocal components of a single reality (monism); this view does not contradict the big bang theory. If on the other hand one accepts creation out of nothing theory, whether by divine being or as an occurrence of nature, the nothing is a simple or single reality where the whole and the part are simultaneously the same reality and equally what is created out of nothing is something that can have parts and a whole simultaneously as derived from its source, nothingness.  Simultaneous monism does not contradict the creation from nothing theory.

  It is relativistic in that all things within it are relative to reach other and the whole.  It is neutral in that it has an absolutely simple single neutral fundamental relative substance, which is not completely given to being any one type of substance.  It freely exists in that it ‘just is’ without depending on something to cause it, it did not cause itself or was it caused by something other than itself.  It is perpetually changing in that change is the fundamental process of its existence, by changing into something similar itself.  It is a natural monism in that it is the only all-inclusive ultimate reality, which may contain divine beings.

It has four categories of reality.  Fundamental reality is whatever the source reality is; in this case the monism itself as the genesis of all other realities.  Direct reality is whatever an actuality is, which in this case is anything in the temporal present.  Indirect reality is whatever is possible, which in this case is anything in the temporal past or future.  Abdirect reality is whatever a governing principle is, which in this case is anything’s propensity and or destiny.

Notes:

1.       Mononaturalism is a word that seems to fit the combined thoughts of Anaximander of Miletus, C. S.  Peirce and Albert Einstein.