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the spiritual naturalism page are religions. To the comment above "I have no desire to tell a
Baptist and Methodist that they are the same – they are separate but similar beliefs." There are non theistic and theistic Baptist's and Methodist's. You can be a Process Philosopher and attach it to a religion which most do, but some do not as they are called process naturalists. Any kind of Naturalism believes that, either the supernatural or higher power entity, if they believe in one or if one is possible, it does not interfere with the natural laws of the universe. They can draw inspiration from the representation of the universe, or some basic some teachings of a religion without believing that the prophet of that religion was actually of god.
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future. Until the proponents themselves see themselves as the same, they had best be titled as they are – separate but similar beliefs. I have no desire to tell a
Baptist and Methodist that they are the same – they are separate but similar beliefs. The differentiation between Spiritual Naturalism and Religious Naturalism based on the interpretations of spiritual and religious may be greater than that between many Christian faiths that have separate Wiki articles.
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addition to its denominations. Perhaps the solution isn't to merge "spiritual naturalism" and religious naturalism," but there should probably be a page that describes the overarching philosophy that connects them. Perhaps a new page should be constructed if a term is available to describe that overarching philosophy, or perhaps it would be sufficient to edit the
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this system of thought is grounded in a rational philosophy of natural, or material, reality. A Spiritual
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Well said Daniel. However, the point can me made that while "spiritual naturalism" and "religious naturalism" may be analogous to denominations within
Christianity, there is still an overarching religion--Christianity--and "Christianity" as an overarching religion does have its own Knowledge page in
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reason to keep it separate from religious naturalism later in the article. I have been worked in this paradigm area for 5 years and think I have a good feel for what is needed to clearify it. I think I have put this subject on respectable ground with the references that were needed in the first place.
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be merged. Reasons: (1) The terms have different histories and origins, (2) "Religion" is a very loaded word for many, and has very different connotations than "spiritual", and (3) those who go by "Spiritual
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I see no difference in religious and spiritual naturalism. If you look at the
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Lumping together variations of religious thought is not an easy task because the proponents see themselves as unique enough to use different terms. Why are not all
Christian faiths combined into only one? As noted in the Spiritual Naturalism article - “There is some debate as to the similarity of,
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The argument that this article should be merged with 'Religious
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I have created this article to replace the one on naturalistic spirituality(spiritual naturalism is far more common). It had no references and appears to be the viewpoint of only one person - that has been expanded considerably. The rational for doing this is given in the first paragraph and the
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Seeing as it has been a few years since this was first brought up, and 7 months since this solution was proposed, and since there seems to be decent consensus on this, I am deleting the tag on merging the two articles and assuming we will not be. I will also add a link to both articles from the
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Most people seem to have different understandings of what spiritual implies and what religious does. Religious
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others to tell them their views are "virtually indistinguishable". Their failure to tell the difference between these terms is not relevant. Otherwise, non-Christians could come along and tell two denominations they believe them to be basically the same thing and merge the topics.--
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and differentiation between, the view of ``spiritual`` naturalism and the related view of ``religious`` naturalism. If the views are seen as separate, the difference may be characterized as the difference between the meanings of the terms ``religious`` and ``spiritual``.”
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