Thank you. I was drawn to the topic, because I've been telling Massimo Pigliucci he's trying to turn Stoicism into a religion. Philosophical Xanax.

I tend toward yin and yang as the more effective model of reality.

Desire versus judgement, heart and head.

Energy expressing and form defining.

Galaxies as energy radiating out, while form coalesces in. Etc.

The logical fallacy of monotheism is that a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell.

While it provides an effective social control mechanism, conflating the ideal, which is aspirational, with the absolute, which is elemental, creates the assumption one's aspirations should be universal. Negating any philsophy of live and let live.

Consider democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures.

The opposite of the absolute is the infinite.

So we live in this fluctuation between everything cancelling out and everything fading out. Nodes falling in, as networks radiate out.

Don't get me started.....