(September 15, 2019 at 1:22 pm)Inqwizitor Wrote: Atheism is an amorphous description of a lack of belief in a god or gods. It could mean that someone has no faith in a religious idea about what a god or gods means, or it could be a philosophical conviction of some kind.
Something I'm curious about is why deism is virtually non-existent nowadays. There are arguments for the existence of "God", that actually, in the end, don't amount to much more than a hypothetical Prime Mover, or "something" — we don't know what — that is the source of reason, volition and material phenomena.
Is deism pointless or even dishonest, because it's asserting something as knowledge that we cannot know? Did you ever seriously consider it instead of atheism? Or is there any practical difference?
I think if many atheists if they had to take a position on the God question, they would likely be deists of some sort, just like most nones subscribe to conceptions of God like that.
Instead they prefer to not take a position as all, prefer to lack a belief one way or the other. They see no real point in believing one way or the other, no relevance in their lives, so to believe in such a trivial conception of god, is as unimportant as having a position on your marital status.
