I agree. My thought was coming from listening to a podcast by an orthodox Christian preacher where he was saying that if you don’t believe god’s intervening in everyday life like the deists or even some others who are theistic on paper can be considered practical atheists. Not that this means they are atheists, but they act like them if they act like the divine and real world are separate. (This podcast was recommended by some dude on revleft for people who see the world as binary, so they could understand dialectics).

Strangely I find myself on both sides of this divide. I left Christianity because I don’t think there is some loving god consciously intervening, but I still do silly rituals like making the sign of the cross when I want a certain outcome. I see the universe as a unified thing that is in some way divine even just in the spinozan way, but in daily life I’m a practical atheist. I guess I’m agnostic, I don’t believe in a magical heaven or hell, but who knows? The Buddhists could be right, the deists could be right, the pantheists could be right, and the anti-theists could be right. All I’m certain is that I don’t trust anyone who thinks they have a god that cares about your rituals and will intervene on behalf of you. I don’t trust anyone who’s very certain about exact realities, but I could see something like Buddhism where you’re supposed to see for yourself working.