What is the importance of pantheism?

Question

What is the importance of pantheism?

Answer 1

Actually, it's more closer to the opposite.  If god is in everything, the power of god is diminished to a manageable lesser quantity when we consider the universe along with all natural laws.

Pantheism subordinates the power of god to more fundamental mathmatical laws of nature.  Consequently, beauty also comes under suspiscion as merely a human emotion that improperly assigns an attribute to something that merely exists within nature.

This is the prevailing position of pantheism as we have inherited it from the influence of Spinoza.

Answer 2

"Pantheism is a metaphysical and religious position. Broadly defined it is the view that (1) "God is everything and everything is God … the world is either identical with God or in some way a self-expression of his nature" (Owen 1971: 74). Similarly, it is the view that (2) everything that exists constitutes a "unity" and this all-inclusive unity is in some sense divine (MacIntyre 1967: 34)."

The importance in such a belief would yield anti-war protests by saying that we are destroying not only beauty but ourselves. If everything is God then by destroying our brother we destroy a part of ourselves. It can also have pacifist roots with things such as global warming protests, fur wearing protests, etc. Basically it's a great way of thinking if you're protesting something because in the end, it will effect you and you would also be committing a crime against "God".