Post by facemelter on Jan 22, 2012 15:50:46 GMT -5
The Natural Order
The Natural Order is a religion based solely in Rivain and has a small following, with the Rivaini slowly being converted to the Qun. Followers of the Natural Order are pantheists, believing that god and nature are one in the same. Nothing else is known about the Natural Order.
Pantheism (in the real world)
Pantheism is the view that the Universe (Nature) and God are identical, or that the Universe (including Nature on Earth) is the only thing deserving the deepest kind of reverence. The word derives from the Ancient Greek: ðᾶí (pan) meaning "All" and èåüò (theos) meaning "God" - literally "All is God."
As such Pantheism promotes the idea that "God" is better understood as a way of relating to nature and the Universe as a whole - all that was, is and shall be - rather than as a transcendent, mental, personal or creator entity.
Pantheists thus do not believe in a personal, anthropomorphic or creator god. Although there are divergences within Pantheism, the central ideas found in almost all versions are the Cosmos as an all-encompassing unity and the "sacredness" of Nature.
The Natural Order is a religion based solely in Rivain and has a small following, with the Rivaini slowly being converted to the Qun. Followers of the Natural Order are pantheists, believing that god and nature are one in the same. Nothing else is known about the Natural Order.
Pantheism (in the real world)
Pantheism is the view that the Universe (Nature) and God are identical, or that the Universe (including Nature on Earth) is the only thing deserving the deepest kind of reverence. The word derives from the Ancient Greek: ðᾶí (pan) meaning "All" and èåüò (theos) meaning "God" - literally "All is God."
As such Pantheism promotes the idea that "God" is better understood as a way of relating to nature and the Universe as a whole - all that was, is and shall be - rather than as a transcendent, mental, personal or creator entity.
Pantheists thus do not believe in a personal, anthropomorphic or creator god. Although there are divergences within Pantheism, the central ideas found in almost all versions are the Cosmos as an all-encompassing unity and the "sacredness" of Nature.
