Spinoza's god

"But as Einstein once said, “mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all,” and Spinoza likewise had no intention of stopping at skepticism.21 Although he was denounced by the orthodox as “an atheist, a scoffer at religion,” Spinoza’s dream was not to denigrate the divine but rather to demonstrate that it was disseminated everywhere.22 And in his subsequent works, the immanent divine became Spinoza’s central theme. He argued that a single inscrutable Substance was the substrate of all things—everything around us and everything within, matter and mind alike.23 For Spinoza, this Substance was “conceived through itself” and consisted of “infinite attributes,” all of which were simply expressions of an “eternal and infinite essence.”24 We could call it whatever we wanted—Substance, Nature, or even God—but as far as Spinoza was concerned, “it is the same, or not very different, to assert that all things emanate necessarily from God’s nature and that the universe is God.”25 From this seemingly simple assertion, he concluded that “all things are united through Nature, and they are united into one, namely, God.”26

Spinoza’s contemporaries were convinced that this made him an atheist..."

"I Am a Part of Infinity: The Spiritual Journey of Albert Einstein" by Kieran Fox: https://a.co/eZtQYsn