"God can be thought of as a transcendent sum of all things, with the whole transcending the sum in the sense of a 'gestalt'. If 'gods' (in the plural) exist, then they would exist add sub-categories for manifestations of the sum of all things. I have sometimes referred to myself as a 'pandeist', but tend to avoid mainstream or even technical categories because people then believe that they automatically understand your views. In the United States this generally means that one's religious identity is defined in terms of differences from Christianity, which is taken as the standard religious yardstick. I feel this objectifies and subordinates traditional Native American ways, and thus I often do not openly identify either as a traditional practitioner or as a 'pan-deist', often preferring the label 'atheist' as I do not feel that my views correlate with mainstream America's Christian notion of 'God'. However, something like 'pan-deism' does to some extent capture the nature of God as I experience it. Everything is God， any part of God, participating in the divine nature of all."
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