that there is no God, while pantheists posit that God and the universe are identical—all is God, and God is all. Deists view God as the maker of nature and moral laws, but assert that God exists apart from, and is not interested in, humanity and the physical universe. On the other hand, theists believe in a personal creator God. Polytheism is opposed to monotheism in regard to the question of the number of gods. Polytheism holds that the deity should be thought of as plural, while monotheism insists