(September 19, 2019 at 7:31 pm)EgoDeath Wrote:(September 19, 2019 at 7:03 pm)Inqwizitor Wrote: I was following the train of thought re: theism/atheism refers to faith or no faith in a divine revelation. The OP was a question about whether atheists here had considered deism, and treating them as distinct. Deism could be a third way that is neither theist nor atheist.
Well, faith is certainly not necessarily the same as belief. And deists believe a god exists, even if they came to that belief through "reasoning." Therefore, deists are not atheists. They may not have the same "faith" that the classical theist has, but they certainly have a belief that god exists, so they're not atheists.
Technically, we could classify them as agnostic deists or gnostic deists.
OK that makes sense.
