Quote:In practice, deism is atheism with poetic flourishes. How I live my life, find meaning and evaluate moral issues would be no different were I to become an atheist tomorrow.
This!
Excellently put - particularly the bit in bold.
I have to say I haven't met too many Deists in my life but the few I have met always ended up on the same side as me in any discussion with a Theist.
When left to ourselves it was almost impossible to find areas of disagreement.
Its extremely difficult to differentiate there's nothing "up there," from, there is something up there, but it doesn't give a shit.
Usually such discussions ended up
Whilst discussions with theists ended up
Kuusi palaa, ja on viimeinen kerta kun annan vaimoni laittaa jouluvalot!
