God's Love

[Abaddon_ire]

I figure he's just mistaken.  He can be mistaken about what term best describes his beliefs in a way that he can't be mistaken about an internal experience common to humanity...unless he simply does not possess such an experience, ofc.

There's a word for that, and it isn't "utilitarian".

Could be, but he is absolutly not a deist. Unless he is using some quixotic personal definition that nobody knows but him. He could be a pantheist, panenthiest, but he likely doesn't know what those are either.

Were I pressed to guess, I would suggest a theist that eschews the "normal" churches (if one can call them normal), an uncoventional theist, if you will.

However, there is no way to tell because he ain't saying anything much.

All we do know is that he claims to be a deist, yet his god also informs morality. These are incompatible claims.