that everything is god
PANTHEISM
Followers of Pantheism.
It believes that God is everything & everything is God.
The religion that believes everything is god is called pantheism. Pantheism is the belief that the universe (or nature) and god are one and the same. It is a philosophical and spiritual perspective that sees divinity in all things and rejects the idea of a separate, personal god.
Atheist believe there is no god/gods, pantheism believes everything is god. Technically one can be both an atheist and a pantheist if one believes that everything is sacred/holy but not god (as some radical environmentalists do).
animism comes from the Greek word "anima," meaning life, breath or spirit. animism is the first form of religion or belief system and is the belief that there is a god or spirit in everything, animate and inanimate. pantheism is the belief that God and the physical universe are one in the same. God is everything and everything is God.
Pantheism identifies God as the universe. He believes in pantheism. Pantheism is a fairly rare doctrine.
"Pan" = everything; "Theos" = god. The expression thus refers to a god that is equivalent to all universe and vice versa, to the whole of the universe, that is equivalent to god. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So, there are at least two major implications that make pantheism what it is, i.e. that make unique, or different from other forms of theisms and atheism in general: 1. There IS god and he is exactly the whole of the existent world. This claim differentiates pantheism from atheism which claims that there is no god at all. 2. While equivalent to the whole of the existent world, there is no god "above" the world or "above the waters" as the Bible puts it, so he could act as the outside manager of the way things are. As such, pantheist god is to be understood more like the inner law of the world which thus organises itself. This claim differentiates pantheism from the so called "transcendentalism", which claims that god is something extra to the existent world.
Paul A. Harrison has written: 'Elements of Pantheism' -- subject(s): Pantheism 'The elements of pantheism'
Pantheism is derived from the Greek roots pan, meaning all, and theos, meaning God. It is the belief that God is everywhere and in all things. People who believe in pantheism do not believe that God is one deity that resides in heaven, but that he is everywhere.
i believe the term is "heathen" to signify a belief that everything has a spirit. it is closely linked with the philosophy of Pantheism that states everything is part of god so there is a part of god in everything.
You might say that the atomic theory (all matter is composed of elementary particles called atoms) supports deism (natural religion based on reason) and pantheism (the deity is in everything). This theory and probably dozens of others 'support' deism and pantheism in the sense that they do not contradict, oppose or disprove them. That is different from saying that the theory represents strong evidence that they are true.