Actually, I thought I was very careful not to "label" either Einstein or Spinoza in this article. And this as a matter of principle: No person is reducible to a single descriptive term. Or so it seems to me.
These are two towering thinkers. To understand something about their respective views on ultimate reality I personally find helpful to my own thinking about the world. I tried to let these men speak for themselves, not through me.
And I do agree with you, stuartcr: All too often, "labeling" is counterproductive. Too often it serves as a distraction away from matters of substance.
I wasn’t speaking of you in particular. It seems that the author and many others like to label people as atheist, deist, pantheist, etc. I’ve never understood the importance of it, other than to discern ‘sides’ in these types of discussions.