just wanted to start a thread to see what Deists and non religious theists believe about God and religions just curious really thought it would be interesting to hear from deists and theists about God and spiritual concepts im not too knowledgeable about deists and what they believe and talking to deists people about beliefs is better than just googling deist . so if anyone knows any deists or anti religion theists what have they told you about their beliefs about God or concepts of spirituality  like life after death eternity infinity and everything else if you believe in any of that at all . in other words "define God"  rob you should like this thread lol 

i dont have any complete definition of God or presume anything about God so in a way im agnostic everything religion says about God is human creation we are not capable of accurately perceiving/defining God but we can get inspiration from God but thats not the same as thinking we are able to imagine God correctly .

Or better yet how does one believe in something for which there is no good, quality reason for?

(November 14, 2015 at 2:51 pm)SpecUVdust Wrote: Or better yet how does one believe in something for which there is no good, quality reason for?

a theist would say they do have good reason to believe in God but if deists do not believe humans can have a relationship with God at all i wonder why they do believe in God .

Exactly right. So then theists. A theists only "good" reason is that it makes them feel good. If we all carried out our lives doing only what made us feel good, we would all be dead.

(November 14, 2015 at 2:59 pm)SpecUVdust Wrote: Exactly right. So then theists. A theists only "good" reason is that it makes them feel good. If we all carried out our lives doing only what made us feel good, we would all be dead.

Really. The only reason for believing in god is fuzzy feelings? I would've thought that some people actually interpret reality differently than others.

(November 14, 2015 at 2:59 pm)SpecUVdust Wrote: Exactly right. So then theists. A theists only "good" reason is that it makes them feel good. If we all carried out our lives doing only what made us feel good, we would all be dead.

i agree believing should be based on experience and not faith in what other people tell them is true / belief in God through religious training people should base their beliefs on evidence not taking another person word for it . the reason christianity is so popular is their faith based ideaology

How else does one learn of "God" other than somebody told them?

The bible? Research the historicity of the bible.

Revelation from God? Demonstrate

Christianity popular?!? Say that after visiting some other countries. Point is people "like" their religion because of indoctrination or as you said religious training. But it's more than that, they're also trained to not think

So Jenny, you are a theist?