What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence?

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• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m heard and read that Abrahamic religions don’t have a place for their gods to hang out but the rest they hang out in the Meta Divine Realm

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• Sylra@lemmy.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “spiritual, but not religious”

  then explain in more detail

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  • Drbreen@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What makes something religious? Because at least with Christianity, they claim that God is spirit. Whatever ‘spirit’ is…

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    • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Religion has to do with habits and practices. So someone can brush their teeth religiously.

      Christianity is a religion, but it’s also a faith-based belief system that incorporates alternate planes of existence. Some people eschew the religion part but still have the belief system, and some people play inside the religion without actually believing in the spiritual side of things.

      I like to explain Christianity as the belief in a multidimensional being who defines the dimensions we can observe and has done a bit of mucking around in a way that was measurable by us. Angelic appearances? Most would call them aliens, as they’d be extra terrestrial intelligences. Spiritual possession? A different dimension that has an effect on the ones we inhabit, but is currently beyond our capacity to fully understand.

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• the_q@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Honestly that’s just religion through science; the purpose is still to give meaning to meaninglessness.

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• Angelevo@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Whatever you want. All of religion is made up, structure provided for those in need.

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• popcornpizza@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah my first thought was, “a Neil Gaiman novel”

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• ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Trascendental polytheism? Are these “gods” involved in any way with our "plane of existences? Are they one or two beings or whole races? Do they have their own “gods” and so on like a multiplanar Matrioska doll? 🤔😅

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• cypherpunks@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Deep Space Nine?

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Q continium, a pseudo-higher dimension is the caretaker(nacene)

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  • TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s Bajorianism or whatever Dukat was smoking in the last season

    Tap for spoiler

    You have a great pAgh

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    • xePBMg9@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Pah-wraiths?

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    • clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “My child” intensifies

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• boydster@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Deistic (believing in a god or gods without a necessary religious component) but not theistic. Or pagan, which is just believing in higher beings (or singular being) that are not Abrahamic. There’s probably other words that fit the bill, too.

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Alien Worship Cultist

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• just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Spiritualism?

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