@corndog- that's because deism is theism.
@Gawdzilla- It's a question of the deistic god, not Abrahamic God, which I'm no expert on and a deist should probably answer. Whether I like something or not is completely irrelevant.
@DP-
1)"Because, to quote Mr. Spock, I look at the universe and say "fascinating". " cites no cauality and is the very definition of a God of the Gaps fallacy
2)I appreciate your attempt to answer the differences between the Abrahamic God and your God, but to keep on topic (it was a rhetorical question) perhaps it would be better to just define the deistic god here.
3)So your contention is that
a)causal atheists see the universe as something that we're lucky to have, rather than a mechanism.
b)socially, material atheism purports natuaral selection alone without factoring in the human mind and our capacity for building our civilization as an intention.
I would agree only with 3b out of your assertions. I think it's a generalization, put sufficiently pronounced in the atheist populous.
@Gawdzilla- It's a question of the deistic god, not Abrahamic God, which I'm no expert on and a deist should probably answer. Whether I like something or not is completely irrelevant.
@DP-
1)"Because, to quote Mr. Spock, I look at the universe and say "fascinating". " cites no cauality and is the very definition of a God of the Gaps fallacy
2)I appreciate your attempt to answer the differences between the Abrahamic God and your God, but to keep on topic (it was a rhetorical question) perhaps it would be better to just define the deistic god here.
3)So your contention is that
a)causal atheists see the universe as something that we're lucky to have, rather than a mechanism.
b)socially, material atheism purports natuaral selection alone without factoring in the human mind and our capacity for building our civilization as an intention.
I would agree only with 3b out of your assertions. I think it's a generalization, put sufficiently pronounced in the atheist populous.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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