(November 3, 2015 at 12:32 am)MysticKnight Wrote: Deism is illogical though. If you are open to God existing, you should be open to the idea that he sent guidance and that the best creation are Guides. That he united their cause in form of religion, and the chosen ones become the uniting flag of the friends of God. If you believe in God, why would he not communicate to humanity?
Oh, I disagree.
I think that if you must believe in God at all,
Deism is the most logical approach when you consider how much harm is done in the name of religion.
Just because Deism scorns the nonsense that most religions thus far CLAIM is the guidance God has sent,
(because they all obviously disagree...amongst having countless other flaws, as well),
does not automatically mean that a Deist would necessarily prohibit the possibility
that God might someday send guidance to mankind;
For example, a Deist might be overjoyed to see God visibly descended on a cloud tomorrow,
and all of humanity...even the deaf and blind and braindead...were simultaneously aware of it,
and all of humanity received His message at once,
with no dispute whatsoever on the meaning of it,
and for once it wasn't complicated or confusing, but utterly, utterly clear, at a glance, even to a child.
But in any event, the Deist isn't counting on such an event
and won't lose any sleep over it.
To you, it seems illogical that God would create us, then not send guidance.
To me, I don't see why not.
I think we could very well just be a petri dish culture,
in a lab full of other petri dish cultures that He is monitoring, that's all.
Who knows what God is thinking?
I certainly don't claim to know,
and I doubt anyone else does, either.