(August 7, 2015 at 6:06 pm)Chad32 Wrote: You can believe in a god, and not be a theist. If you believe in the abrahamic god, you're a theist. If you believe in a deistic god, you aren't.
"Theism" is sometimes used in a restrictive sense which fits with your ideas, but it also is used to just mean the belief in a god. In that sense, a deist is a theist. See:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/theism?s=t
See also:
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defini...ish/theism
Note that "especially" does not mean "exclusively."
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
