(April 29, 2011 at 1:07 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: I do wonder the same thing - if there is a god, and it's deist sort, what's the point? I think of someone who builds a hugely complex model train set and then abandons it. Maybe that's still human bias coming through. [shrugs]
The word "abandons" is sometimes used in a biased definition of deism but not by deists themselves. I know of no deist philosopher that ever used the term or anything like it.
My bacteria cell in a petri dish analogy might be helpful for your understanding of the deist's position on the topic of God.
Put another way, I can tell you the joke about one bacteria cell in said petri dish approaching another and saying "let me tell you about my personal relationship with the great lab coat in the sky".
I see it as a matter of scale.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
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