RE: What is wrong with theistic beliefs?
November 16, 2018 at 9:36 pm
(This post was last modified: November 16, 2018 at 9:42 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 16, 2018 at 8:55 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: I put "something else." To me, theism (belief in God) is a false belief. But the question asked about theistic beliefs with an "s." A great many true beliefs can be tacked on to a false one. And that is certainly the case with the major world religions.
Was Martin Luther King delusional? Was Gandhi delusional? No. Probably far less delusional than your average person. Did they each have at least one false belief. Yes, probably.
Deism is a belief in god. Theism is more. Deists believe in god. Theists believe in a personal god who intervenes and has told them where to put their peeners and what to do with anyone who puts their peener elsewhere.
Deists are silly. Theists are positively dangerous.
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