Changing definitions of God over time

I think theism went a little wild in the West in attempting to make God separate from the world, although the arguments were clever they seem sophistical compared to the pantheistic East, with its belief that the inner nature of all things is God. Yet both the East and the West wanted God to be beyond the material world, even beyond time, whether that God was considered inner or outer.

These arguments for God were gradually whittled away from around the 18^th century with Hume, and continuing on through Russell to our present time, which increasingly does not believe in a God at all. My argument for theological materialism brings material life back to religion by defining Godhood as the supermaterial zenith of evolution. The inner God of the East is seen as the ecumenical esoteric God found in all religions East and West in the Inward Path, and outward Godhood is seen as the inclusion but transformation of the inner God to outward Godhood which we evolve to in the cosmos in the Outward Path.