What do you call the belief that God’s are just higher beings on other planes of existence while not believing in manmade organised dogmatic religons?
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Yeah my first thought was, “a Neil Gaiman novel”
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This question is too vague. “Higher beings” is not well defined enough. “Other planes of existence” is not defined well enough. For that matter “the Gods” is not very specific. And in a weird way, what you’re saying seems somewhat circular. Like what do you call it when you believe gods aren’t gods? If you don’t believe they’re gods then who are you even indicating?
Are you asking if there’s a name for someone who believes that humanity’s major religions do worship real living beings, but those beings are simply advanced alien creatures and not metaphysical in any way.
Yup. Believing in higher beings from other dimension is just religion with different words. Only when the belief is based on fact and not faith can it not be religion.
I disagree, there are rules and structure to religion.
Believing in ghosts is not based on fact. But you wouldn’t call that religion.
Numerology is not a religion. It does have rules, but it is not organised and it doesn’t have a central authority. It is absolutely based on faith though.
Okay, it’s superstition, of which religion is a variant. There’s a very thin line between having faith in the supernatural and worship.
if there’s higher dimensions they’re still part of the universe as I know it, they’re just not in the parts I can perceive. There’s very little useful speculation I can do in relation to the parts I can’t perceive. Apparently this is called “existence monism,” so this would be one of the other things in the Wikipedia theology tree. personally I would classify it as a type of Monolatry.
wouldnt another dimension be seperate from the universe, but not reality.
