[Night Stalker]

But if everything and everyone were neutral, everything would be grey, and everyone would have the same oppinion (or at least non-confrontational ones)! That would be sooooo boring! Variety is the spice of life! Differing or even insulting oppinions make things interesting!

I'm gonna continue the mathmatical comparison in reguards to the Religious sets topic and the infinite being bounded.

Lets define Natural numbers as the set of all numbers where n>0. i.e. {1,2,3, ...}

Now lets define whole numbers as the of all numbers where n>=0. i.e. {0,1,2, ...} or {0, natural numbers} or all natural numbers plus 0.

blaa ... blaaa until we define Real numbers as all numbers that are able to be computationally solved. Note that this includes all subsets of numbers.

Imaginary numbers are all numbers that cannot be computationally solved. I only know of the square root of (-1).

Finally we get the Super Set of Complex Numbers being the set of all Real and all Imaginary Numbers!

Whew! Ok so how does this relate to religion? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Christianity is a set of beliefs that has one deity. (Argueably one could label Christianity polytheistic, but that is another debate.)
Islam is a set of beliefs that has one deity.
Monotheism is the set of all belief systems with one deity.

Ancient Greek Ethos is a set of beliefs that has many deities.
Babalonian Ethos is a set of beliefs that has a different set of many deities.
Polytheism is the set of all belief systems that have many deities.

Atheism is the set of beliefs that is absent of a deity.

Religion is the Super Set of all belief systems.

All I'm saying is, call it a generic world view, call it Scooby Doo for all I care, since pantheism is an "ism", it is a system of beliefs. Therefore, downplaying it as a religion is the same thing as downplaying Christianity.