What deism has done for the world

[Mister Agenda]

Jefferson Bible. Way more convincing to doubters than the regular Bible, doesn't involve swallowing camels. Any particular reason Jefferson's version isn't regarded as adequate for Christianity?

It is not adequate because it excludes the accounts of the virgin birth and Christ's bodily resurrection from the grave on the Sunday morning following His crucifixion. If those two events never happened then our faith is in vain and Christianity along with the Bible can be relegated to the book shelf along with the various religious texts of the world's religions. Jefferson being a deist sought to remove all accounts of the miraculous from the New Testament essentially stripping it and watering it down. He essentially made the bible conform to his views instead of conforming his views to the bible. A grave error many have made over the centuries.

I think you're selling the message that's left over short, but that's just my opinion.

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discipulus - with regards to PM: if you wish, okay.

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Helps the atheist movement by underscoring that even if Christians could prove the existence of "a" god, their work would still be ahead of them.

Why are Christians a Deist's main concern when confronting atheism?

I don't think DeistPaladin is really 'confronting' atheism. He's for a secular state, that puts us on the same side on most issues. Right or wrong, we're not trying to get SC teachers to read the annals of the American Humanist Association every day in class. In the USA, pretty much every minority nonChristian group and some minority Christian groups have aligned interests in the face of a Christianist Majority (or perhaps it's a large minority that is good at presenting itself as the majority) that never ceases to seek to wield the power of our government to promote itself.