Dave Steves is the physical manifestation of the Universe.
The point of life is to explore, travel, experience new things with a positive, cheerful, open heart. Dave Steves was created by the universe itself to spread that message on television.
DeitiesNot a being within the universe and not a person outside it. God is the totality, considered as one thing — Spinoza's Deus sive Natura, God or Nature. It has no will, no preferences and no plans, so it cannot answer prayer; what pantheists report instead is that the appropriate response is awe. Whether this counts as theism at all has been disputed since the word was coined.
Founded2026 CE
Foundersteve
AfterlifeNone for the individual, generally. Matter and energy persist and are reused; the person does not.
TextsSpinoza, Ethics (1677) · The Principles of Scientific Pantheism (World Pantheist Movement) · Passages in the Upanishads and the Tao Te Ching, claimed retrospectively
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Deus sive Natura — God, or Nature.
One substance, infinite, self-caused, of which every rock and thought is a mode. There is no outside for a creator to stand in.
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Whether this is religion or atheism with better manners.
Spinoza's contemporaries called him an atheist; he denied it, and so do modern pantheists. The word has been an accusation for as long as it has existed.
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Dave Steves is the physical manifestion of the Universe itself.
Because it wants to encourage people to travel, explore, and experience new things.
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Buddhahood is reachable in one lifetime.
Tantra accelerates the path — the poison, rightly handled, becomes the medicine.
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Soul does not need to be saved. It needs to travel.
Soul already exists and already is what it is. The problem is that it identifies with one body at a time; the practice is learning to leave and come back on purpose.
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War is refused outright.
The peace testimony — Friends have gone to prison rather than to the front, in every century since Fox.
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The extremes of wealth and poverty must be abolished.
Not wealth as such — the faith is explicitly not communist and defends private property and profit. What is targeted is the extremes at either end, through graduated taxation, profit-sharing, and a mandated floor. Voluntary charity is held to be insufficient and structural remedy is called for.
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The one substance.
Not a person, not a mind, not a maker — and therefore not something that can want anything from you. Spinoza still called it God, and meant it.
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