RE: Damned Deists
September 13, 2018 at 7:53 am
(This post was last modified: September 13, 2018 at 7:58 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Well, you might be missing the other bits of a persons deism that we don't normally talk about when we have an academic discussion on the subject (or even when a person describes it themselves). Some deists, for example..believe in heaven and hell...or karma and endless cycles of suffering and pain or an escape from them. They may not think that a god personally intervenes in this, that it pulls levers or tips scales (or is even aware)..but they generally do think that the rules that follow are a consequence of god's creation and/or attributes.
They care about that. If they don't do this or that -just right-...then the cold impersonal machinery of a clockwork god will grind them to dust.
They care about that. If they don't do this or that -just right-...then the cold impersonal machinery of a clockwork god will grind them to dust.
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