If you were GOD, how would improve the world?

[Binkie The Clown]

57. We use words to draw distinctions.

We call a hammer "hammer", but we don't call a hammer "horse", because it's important to draw distinctions between horses and hammers. To say "God is everything" is to say that "god" is another word for "everything". But we already have a perfectly good word for everything, namely "everything". To say that "god" is "everything" is to say there is no distinction between "god" and "everything", which is to say that we don't need the word "god" to draw a distinction since no distinction exists.

Another way to put it is that to say "god is everything" is a statement without content or meaning. It's like saying "A hammer is a hammer." That this doesn't mean anything is evidenced by the statement "A glorp is a glorp." Well, then, what is a glorp? We don't know because the statement "A glorp is a glorp." doesn't tell us anything at all, just as the statement "A hammer is a hammer." tells us nothing.

To say "God is everything is equivalent to saying "Everything is god", which is equivalent to saying "Everything is everything." which is equivalent to saying "God is god." None of those statements has any meaning, because none of them tells us anything that lets us make any kind of distinction between "god" and "everything". And if that's truly the case then anything said about "god" could just as easily be said about "anything", which, of course, makes it ridiculous to say things like "Everything loves us." and "Everything gets angry when we sin." and "Everything is looking down on us from heaven."

In short, to say "God is everything" makes everything we can say about "god" meaningless.