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World Pantheist Movement

The World Pantheist Movement is an organization of people associated with pantheism, a philosophy that asserts that spirituality is centered around nature. It claims membership in many countries. Some critics claim that they should be associated with Pan-atheism instead.

The World Pantheist Movement schismed from the Universal Pantheist Society.

Both of the above organizations are controversial among the extremely small amount of people who have strong feelings about the term 'pantheism', and there are differences within pantheism itself, which is a term necessarilly broad in scope. The above organizations can be specifically refered to as naturalistic pantheism, and are distinctly different from classical pantheism. An example of why these religious organizations have been called atheist and/or Pan-atheist can be seen in an Atheist Magazine interview with Paul Harrison [1].

There is also no relationship whatsoever with cosmotheism, a term sometimes used to refer to a white separatist religion founded by William Pierce, and sometimes used variously otherwise.

See also

• Naturalistic Pantheism

External link

• World Pantheist Movement official site

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