RE: Am I a Deist? Cosmological Argument seems reasonable to me.
September 26, 2016 at 2:05 pm
(This post was last modified: September 26, 2016 at 2:08 pm by robvalue.)
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I didn't mean anything I said to be an attack, apologies if it came off that way. Just discussing ideas.
I would say that if you're not insistent on the cause being a god, you're not even a deist. I'd say you're an atheist, with a leaning towards a caused reality. Deism, as a subset of theism, generally presupposes at the very least some sort of intelligence as the cause. But it's semantics, really. The word "God", as I've discussed, is so vague as to be meaningless. This is the basis of my position, ignosticism. The concept is so ill-defined that I can't even give a meaningful answer to any questions about it without much further clarification.
As I reject the question, it's again a matter of semantics and definitions as to whether I'm an atheist or not. To keep things simple, I say I am, as I clearly have no positive beliefs about the reality of any sort of "God" that's ever been presented to me.

I didn't mean anything I said to be an attack, apologies if it came off that way. Just discussing ideas.
I would say that if you're not insistent on the cause being a god, you're not even a deist. I'd say you're an atheist, with a leaning towards a caused reality. Deism, as a subset of theism, generally presupposes at the very least some sort of intelligence as the cause. But it's semantics, really. The word "God", as I've discussed, is so vague as to be meaningless. This is the basis of my position, ignosticism. The concept is so ill-defined that I can't even give a meaningful answer to any questions about it without much further clarification.
As I reject the question, it's again a matter of semantics and definitions as to whether I'm an atheist or not. To keep things simple, I say I am, as I clearly have no positive beliefs about the reality of any sort of "God" that's ever been presented to me.
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