(March 18, 2014 at 4:22 am)tor Wrote: What to you is a difference between deist and not a deist?
Deism as a theology just means a belief in god without religion but the philosophical understanding of Deism is the rejection of religion followed by the concept of a physically inactive god. A god that can only be understood through natural observation of the physical world. It is a materialist's god essentially although panendeism solves this issue.
Some atheists like saying that deists are borderline atheists since they reject any action which violates the physical laws. I myself cannot even fathom why a demiurge would establish laws only to break them.
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