Capitalism, Deism, Theism, Pantheism

The terms are commonly used casually, but one way that 'Deism' and 'Theism' have been distinguished is: while, according to the former, God creates the universe, but thereafter has no further involvement in it, according to the latter, God also intervenes in his creation. A prominent example of the former is Newton's clockwork physical world, that of the latter implied by the parting of the Red Sea in Exodus. Similarly, Smith's concept of the Invisible Hand as an immanent balancing mechanism is Deistic, while the American Protestant concept of it as a dispenser of divine justice is Theistic. In contrast with both, Spinoza's Pantheism is less hospitable to Capitalism. For, according to the former, the Empiricist Behaviorism of the latter marks it as an Inadequate Idea, and, hence, as a less than divine system.