@TSQ- no offense taken, lots of people have justified reason why people claiming to be Christians are crazy, there's a lot of fundamental nut jobs out there. I just hope you know they're not accept by mainstream Christianity either. As of now it appears I'm doing all the questioning for the atheistic community when I had no original intention of denouncing the deistic god, just wanted some cohesion of definition. I'll let the atheists around here do the rest. I have enough on my plate fending off bitter atheists and being a mod, I don't need bitter deists on there as well.
"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
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari