RE: Why Do I hate creationists (theists in general)
August 23, 2016 at 1:33 am
(This post was last modified: August 23, 2016 at 1:34 am by popsthebuilder.
Edit Reason: Misspoke; said always been, but really was always atheist up until 2011
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(August 23, 2016 at 12:50 am)Whateverist Wrote:Your mind is a very different one from mine indeed.(August 22, 2016 at 12:26 am)popsthebuilder Wrote: So what about someone who is a partial deist and partial theist?
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Two questions:
Does that mean you your self are leaning a little deist?
Are you the same Pops who'd gotten swept up in some religious predictions?
Don't mean to put you on the spot or embarrass you. I think quite a few of us felt some real fondness for you and were wishing you hadn't painted yourself into that corner.
There are and have been members who were deists. I myself can allow 'gods' exist; I just don't think any of them created everything or have the power to impose an afterlife even if they wanted. So I don't go for any supernaturalism in gods. If they're going to have any reality at all, they're just going to have to make it in the real world the same way we do. Of course, you might wonder if God is so little why even bother? But to my mind, it is only a very little, nearly powerless, entirely personal god which could possibly command my respect or interest.
I've always been both, even pantheistic, but none bother to ask generally.
Deist in that I believe in an ultimate creative force.
Theistic in that I jave belief in one God as the creator and ruler of the universe, without rejection of revelation (distinguished from deism ).
Pantheistic in that I do indeed believe all existence to be of GOD.
Hope that helps.
I just don't get how people can justifiably insist that GOD; the creator of all existence, wouldn't care about or guide that creation or formation.
Peace
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