What's the difference between pantheistic and polytheistic?
Pantheistic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Pantheistical
Example Sentences:
(1) The striving to partake in a pantheistic whole is ever present and it takes many forms; if one avenue towards its realization is blocked, it surges out from another channel.
Polytheistic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Polytheistical
Example Sentences:
(1) The influence of Wahhabism meant that 90% of Islamic monuments, holy places, tombs and mausoleums in the Arabian peninsula were destroyed on the grounds that they were “polytheistic”.
(2) Of the estimated 200,000 refugees, many have reached towns in the Kurdish zone, where emergency supplies are running low; others are stranded on the mountain , dying of hunger and thirst but too afraid to move, aware that IS is killing Yazidis it finds or forcibly converting them to Islam, since it sees them as “polytheists” or – worse – “devil worshippers”.
(3) It has also destroyed significant portions of the ancient heritage of Iraq’s Assyrian community, Shia and Christian shrines that Isis says are polytheistic and contrary to its brand of puritanical Islam.
(4) "Is he a Bayern Munich fan as his birthplace might indicate, or is he as polytheistic as his predecessor?
(5) "It's the fact of the jihad, the preparation of the jihad, the fighting of the jihad, this is what causes terrors inside the hearts of the mushrik [polytheists] and even the enemies that you don't know," he added.