RE: What is the Point of Believing in God Without Religion?
January 3, 2017 at 2:30 pm
(This post was last modified: January 3, 2017 at 2:33 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The point is deflection. They absolutely do believe in -their- organized religion, but they don't want to saddled with the apparatus' misdeeds..plus, it gives them license to bitch about all the other organized religions, which they would do anyway.
The vanishingly small number of actual deists we get are a special case. They'd probably agree with you, but nevertheless, they believe. They may not think that god interferes in human affairs, or cares whether or not we believe, they may not think that belief is virtuous in and of itself..or even that virtue is a subject with relevance to the divine, but none of that makes a deist a deist.
The vanishingly small number of actual deists we get are a special case. They'd probably agree with you, but nevertheless, they believe. They may not think that god interferes in human affairs, or cares whether or not we believe, they may not think that belief is virtuous in and of itself..or even that virtue is a subject with relevance to the divine, but none of that makes a deist a deist.
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