RE: What is the Point of Believing in God Without Religion?
January 3, 2017 at 6:01 pm
(This post was last modified: January 3, 2017 at 6:05 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Well, it doesn;t really matter how many people who believe in god without all of the other shit think of it as deism, that;s just what it is. When you add the trappings of the other shit it ceases to be deism, deists don't have a divine safety valve (as that would be intercession, intervention).
For most people, the statement "I believe in god but not organized religion" can be translated to "I believe in the god of organized religion but distance myself from other adherents of the same for reasons™". That's a stranger thing not to realize, for them, imo. Cultural acclimitization, maybe, ignorance, a failure of imagination...for whatever reason, to those people, the term god only refers to one tiny little thing....and it;s exactly the same thing they object to in the next breath.
For most people, the statement "I believe in god but not organized religion" can be translated to "I believe in the god of organized religion but distance myself from other adherents of the same for reasons™". That's a stranger thing not to realize, for them, imo. Cultural acclimitization, maybe, ignorance, a failure of imagination...for whatever reason, to those people, the term god only refers to one tiny little thing....and it;s exactly the same thing they object to in the next breath.
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