What is the Point of Believing in God Without Religion?

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The way I look at it, deism makes two unnecessary assumptions at a minimum:

1) Our reality had a cause
2) That cause was an intelligent being

You can easily make more, as a lot of people probably do:

3) This being required no cause
4) This being created everything except itself

These second two preclude a computer programmer type situation, making sure it's the "top dog".

Once you move beyond this, you're just adding even more unnecessary assumptions. The more you make, the less rational you are being, in my opinion.

5) The being is concerned with the human race
6) The being is going to move us out of our reality when we die, into other realities, based on certain rules
7) The being interferes with our reality

...and so on. You're making more and more wild assumptions at each point. Of course, the theist will feel that they have justification for all of these, so they won't consider them assumptions necessarily.