(October 16, 2017 at 11:50 am)Brian37 Wrote:(October 16, 2017 at 10:53 am)Ignorant Wrote: Do you consider the God of Aristotle a religious God?
Is deism a religion?
By theism, I meant merely a metaphysical/purely philosophical account of reality which includes some sort of self-explanatory/self-existent "being". An infinite past is not mutually exclusive with these sorts of accounts.
Oh stop it.
Stop what?
All I said is that theism is compatible with an infinite past, and the three abrahamic religions are not. That you read into those few words some sort of implicit religious argument is on you.
Theistic arguments which try to demonstrate god's existence based on the "fact" of a "beginning" of all things are not satisfactory. Whether there is an infinite past or not is irrelevant to the rational conclusion of God's existence.
