RE: Why not deism?
July 10, 2020 at 9:36 am
(This post was last modified: July 10, 2020 at 9:37 am by GrandizerII.)
(July 9, 2020 at 10:30 pm)masoni Wrote:(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?
since deism has a nondescript god who does nothing but exist, why would it make any difference?
The irony is that it's not that different from the classical God of [Christian] theology. It's only when Christian theologians resort to revelation that the Christian god suddenly becomes "meaningful" (and rather absurd as a notion).
