(January 3, 2017 at 6:01 pm)Rhythm Wrote: 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.
Does that make deists more gullible or less?
Between religion and god, I know which one's real.
Religion is based on a scam, so deists go direct to the scam and bypass the middleman.
It's a bit like me losing at the casino most times... Why bother going, I may as well just send them a check once a month! Lol.
No God, No fear.
Know God, Know fear.
Know God, Know fear.
