RE: Am I a Deist? Cosmological Argument seems reasonable to me.
September 26, 2016 at 4:08 am
(This post was last modified: September 26, 2016 at 4:10 am by robvalue.)
Deism, basically, is two unecessary assumptions.
It assumes our reality had a cause. It assumes further that this cause was some sort of intelligent being.
You can get around this by using the word "God" so elastically that it is defined as "the cause of our reality, if there was one". In such a case, God can literally be nothing. Seems pretty pointless to me.
But yes, I would expect any deist to act exactly like an atheist in all practical regards.
It assumes our reality had a cause. It assumes further that this cause was some sort of intelligent being.
You can get around this by using the word "God" so elastically that it is defined as "the cause of our reality, if there was one". In such a case, God can literally be nothing. Seems pretty pointless to me.
But yes, I would expect any deist to act exactly like an atheist in all practical regards.
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