RE: Deism vs Religion (Non-guidance vs guidance).
February 29, 2016 at 9:14 am
(This post was last modified: February 29, 2016 at 9:17 am by robvalue.)
You said before that if Islam was true, we'd have no choice but to obey Allah.
I'm not obeying. So it can't be true.
Deism makes two assumptions:
1) This reality was created
2) The agent was intelligent
That's it. It's consistent with reality and scientific knowledge.
Any other brand of theism just makes further assumptions, adding arbitrary and untestable attributes to the agent. It also sometimes makes claims about reality, which often render it inconsistent; or the agent is given contradictory attributes making it internally inconsistent.
It's all a set of unecessary assumptions, which we have no need of to function perfectly well. I am sad that you feel you need so much guidance, rather than just thinking for yourself.
I'm not obeying. So it can't be true.
Deism makes two assumptions:
1) This reality was created
2) The agent was intelligent
That's it. It's consistent with reality and scientific knowledge.
Any other brand of theism just makes further assumptions, adding arbitrary and untestable attributes to the agent. It also sometimes makes claims about reality, which often render it inconsistent; or the agent is given contradictory attributes making it internally inconsistent.
It's all a set of unecessary assumptions, which we have no need of to function perfectly well. I am sad that you feel you need so much guidance, rather than just thinking for yourself.
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