Talk:Self-deification
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The word "autotheism," which does not suffer from the awful mixing of Greek and Latin, has had this meaning in English since 1619 according to the OED. The only problem with using autotheism in the sense of self-deification is that it had an earlier technical meaning in Catholic writings, actually two of them:
- The doctrine of the self-existence of God
- The heresy that Jesus was God in his own right
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Therefore, I'm proposing to edit "suitheism" right out of the neopagan page.
I can do that, since I am God.
Freeman 19:25 Jan 23, 2003 (UTC)
This article really doesn't deserve an encyclopedia entry. Practically no one uses this term; it is just a neologism that was made up by two authors to describe themselves. People in the real world just don't use this term. Authors make up thousands of self-defined phrases every decade; should we waste our time on encyclopedia writing about them, when real topics need work? RK
Surprisingly enough I have been a "suitheist" since I can remember and not until I stumbled on this did I realize there were others who felt the same. Leave the entry up for all those who stumble (even gods need to know where to look). ~nameless walker
For an example of Suitheism, see Ludwig Feuerbach. In 1841 he published "The Essence of Christianity".