“All religions act as backing to ethical systems, often through the threat of hell, or the promise of heaven. They foster the good, not for its own sake, but in the hope of gaining rewards or avoiding punishment.
Pantheism begins as a statement about our relationship with Reality. However, it leads on to an ethic and a politic. The ethic is based on the premise that the principal good in human life is to connect with the cosmos, with nature, and with other humans, through knowledge, love and loving action. Everything that furthers that connection, in oneself and in others, is good. Everything that hinders it, is bad.”
