Deism vs Religion (Non-guidance vs guidance).

[AFTT47]

There is many reasons to me that Deism doesn't make sense as opposed to a religion. I think when religion can be summarized to be what a person submits to and follows for guidance. It's quite simple to me.

In Deism, you can do the following:

Follow yourself totally
Follow yourself partially, and partially follow others, in which in reality you are following yourself (you chose what to follow from others).
Follow a person totally


Now in Deism, you don't believe you are totally guided. And you don't believe others are totally guided by God because you have no proof of them being guided by God. 

It can be said while somethings you or others know will be correct and enlightening, this way is destined to mix falsehood with truth, for certain. You don't know the initial steps you must follow to reach the next steps, and so on, until you are following the light of God as ought it to be followed.

While in theory, we can supposedly connect to God and the light, in Deism, in practicality, it will be purely individual while the masses will be left without guidance.

MK, don't you see that what you posted has everything to do with what you WANT to believe? Reality doesn't care. Reality couldn't care less if anyone is guided or not. Reality just is. Religion is a comfortable crutch for those who feel they need guidance but it's a fabrication.

I'm not unsympathetic to you or to others like you. I see you as a genuine seeker, one who truly want's to understand. But I believe you're pursuing made-up crap to try to fill the void. Most of us here are comfortable with the void. We know there is more than what we understand (and maybe more than we are capable of understanding) but we are comfortable admitting that. We're not comfortable of making up fairy tales to fill the void because we intellectually KNOW that that's bullshit.

We are far more intelligent than the other animals but we are still very limited. It won't always be that way. We will use technology to radically increase our own capability but even then, it is highly questionable whether we will be able to tackle questions like God. The most honest answer we will ever have is, "i don't know." But we already have what we need to disprove nonsense like Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Those religions make claims which are out of step with known fact, logic and even common sense. Trying to find your answers there is like trying to find them in a Looney Toons cartoon. Not to say that there isn't anything of value to be found there but what you find has to be dispassionately judged by reality.