Why Do I hate creationists (theists in general)

[Pat Mustard]

Two questions:

Does that mean you your self are leaning a little deist?

Are you the same Pops who'd gotten swept up in some religious predictions?


Don't mean to put you on the spot or embarrass you.  I think quite a few of us felt some real fondness for you and were wishing you hadn't painted yourself into that corner.

There are and have been members who were deists.  I myself can allow 'gods' exist; I just don't think any of them created everything or have the power to impose an afterlife even if they wanted.  So I don't go for any supernaturalism in gods.  If they're going to have any reality at all, they're just going to have to make it in the real world the same way we do.  Of course, you might wonder if God is so little why even bother?  But to my mind, it is only a very little, nearly powerless, entirely personal god which could possibly command my respect or interest.

Your mind is a very different one from mine indeed.

I've always been both, even pantheistic, but none bother to ask generally.

Deist in that I believe in an ultimate creative force.

Theistic in that I jave belief in one God as the creator and ruler of the universe, without rejection of revelation (distinguished from deism ).

Pantheistic in that I do indeed believe all existence to be of GOD.

Hope that helps.

I just don't get how people can justifiably insist that GOD; the creator of all existence,  wouldn't care about or guide that creation or formation.

Peace

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Deism & Pantheism and Theism are two groupings of ideas which have a fundamentally incompatible idea of what a god is. Neither deists nor pantheists believe in intentionally active gods while theists do. You can't really try to say I'm one or the other, because you ascribe to your idea of god two natures which cannit coexist.

Oh, and from your beliefs cited you are a theist. Answer me this though why do you ascribe to go the natur of a five year old spoiled brat? That's why I cannot accept any of the gods believed in, they are too human, too petty and too limited to be anything other than our imagination.