(April 27, 2011 at 11:35 pm)FadingW Wrote: A deist conception of god is most truly one which is without action, other than spinning the top to begin with.
Why is not a deist god considered immoral or at last amoral?
Some people do. Clearly, you may want to as well.
Is it because a deist god is said to have no involvement at all, make no demands, have no ethical implication?
Yes, that is probably exactly why.
Is it because, since a deist god never does intervene, it's pointless to discuss it's morality with regards to action?
The reason no one bugs us with this kind of question is because we don't pretend to know. Therein lies the problem with your argument. I cannot argue the morality of a God that I cannot prove exists. How can I even assign him behaviors or feelings.
Is it because, deists are the least offensive, least harmful of any religious group, who themselves don't gain or lose anything by what other people think or say about god?
Or is inaction from a god plausibly sometimes not evil?
We are least offensive because we don't presume to know the characteristics of God. Plus you're assuming that we have made claims that our God is everywhere. I don't believe that at all and I know that the majority of my fellow deists don't believe that either. That being the case you can't really hold a God responsible for everything horrible that happens on earth if he happens to be 100 million light years on the other side of the universe at the time.