The trouble with Spinoza’s pantheism, however, was that he pushed it to the point where it was impossible to make valid distinctions between it and atheism. He himself insisted he had not said that the material world, as we see it and treat it, was God. He states in his Ethics that ‘We easily conceive the whole of nature to be one individual,’ because one individual can be part of a larger one, ad infinitum. But he does not see God as a person. He states in terms that to credit God with such attributes as ‘will’ or ‘intellect’
