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Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.
Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.
Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.
I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos.
.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.
God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
Pantheism, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything.
Johnny Appleseed was revered . . he was . . . an evangelist (of a doctrine veering perilously close to pantheism).
In the second century A.D. the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius may have best defined pantheism when he wrote, “Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.
Some people have described Daoism as pantheist, and although there's something in me that resists this designation, I can see that Daoism is consistent with pantheism. If there is any way in which pantheism makes sense and is not redundant, then it is the way (or 'the Way') presented in Daoism.
Malebranche teaches that we see all things in God himself. This is certainly equivalent to explaining something unknown by something even more unknown. Moreover, according to him, we see not only all things in God, but God is also the sole activity therein, so that physical causes are so only apparently; they are merely occasional causes. ( Recherches de la vérité , Livre VI, seconde partie, chap. 3.) And so here we have essentially the pantheism of Spinoza who appears to have learned more from Malebranche than from Descartes.