RE: Why not deism?
September 15, 2019 at 2:06 pm
(This post was last modified: September 15, 2019 at 2:07 pm by Fake Messiah.)
Deism was largely used in pre Darwin times when people didn't want to have anything to do with religion and yet there was no other way to explain the beginnings of life so they had to acknowledge the minimal attributes like prime mover and life force.
But why aren't people today choosing deism instead of Jesus? Some are and these people are called agnostics and some are deists/ agnostics but are not aware of it, like when they speak of God living in another dimension.
But also problem with deists God is that he is very boring and people want God to excite them to hate gay people, people of other religions, who is pro gun, pro nationalism, etcetera.
But why aren't people today choosing deism instead of Jesus? Some are and these people are called agnostics and some are deists/ agnostics but are not aware of it, like when they speak of God living in another dimension.
But also problem with deists God is that he is very boring and people want God to excite them to hate gay people, people of other religions, who is pro gun, pro nationalism, etcetera.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
