(May 22, 2011 at 9:20 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote:(May 22, 2011 at 6:10 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Deists seem to think of 'god' as sort of a human appendix. It's there....it serves no useful purpose...and sometimes it causes a hell of a lot of trouble.
If I may offer an alternate metaphor, atheism and deism are like America and Britain. Both are free societies (we might debate my own country's status in that regard but that's another issue) and occasionally work together against dictatorships where necessary but one keeps a monarchy. The monarch doesn't interfere in the daily running of the country and is largely there for pomp and circumstance. The other has decided that a monarchy serves no purpose and functions well without one.
I disagree that the British monarchy doesn't interfere in the runing of the country. The Royal family are immensely rich and are at the very pinnacle of the class structure of the country. In short, it is an instrument to maintain the status quo in the interests of the rich and powerful.
America's got it right.....no monarchy.
A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
