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human
What is the point in Spinoza referring to the physical universe as God?

In what way does belief in the Pantheistic conception of God differ from Atheism? I fail to see how it is not simply materialism that Spinoza refers to.
gpt
You're not alone in your charge, since he was indeed accused of atheism in his time and excommunicated from the Jewish community. However, only one of the attributes of god is extension (materialism), and god has an *infinite* number of attributes, so he's definitely not a materialist.