Then one must ask themselves, how does the pantheist know that it's not an illusion---that the pain is an illusion? Pantheism not only fails to provide intellectual satisfaction on this question of pain and suffering, but it doesn't help us much emotionally, or subjectively either. How would you feel if your child was dying of a painful disease and I came up to you and told you that pain is just an illusion?

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