RE: Deist vs Christian debates?
March 13, 2015 at 3:40 pm
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2015 at 4:13 pm by Pizza.)
(March 13, 2015 at 5:48 am)abaris Wrote:They could go either way. Polytheist or polydeism.(March 12, 2015 at 8:14 pm)Dystopia Wrote: Theists believe in an interventive and super concerned entity, while deists prefer the model of the god that creates everything and step aside.
On which side of the spectrum would politheistic believers fall according to that? I've encountered quite a lot of them. Where every deity has it's own role and limited powers according to it's nature? I've also encountered pantheists, who believe everything to be part of the divine.
(March 13, 2015 at 7:34 am)robvalue Wrote: Yeah, that is DeistPaladin's approach and I can see a lot of value in it.I'd be willing to concede supernaturalism for the sake of argument then see what they do. Honestly, if you take supernaturalism seriously, there is few limits within reason for what we can predict supernatural beings can, can't, would and wouldn't do. We would have no conclusive reason to prefer one supernatural being over another. It's the which god problem extended to infinity!
I've tried it recently, and when I say "Now what?" they got nothing and slink away back into the corner. You can just say you're a Deist whether you believe it or not, in order to access that shortcut. What are they going to do, strap you to a lie detector? :p
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