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Deism vs. Atheism
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RE: Deism vs. Atheism
May 21, 2010 at 6:07 pm (This post was last modified: May 21, 2010 at 6:08 pm by Paul the Human.)
I always thought that deists believed in a sentient creator being that never interacted with it's creation since the act of creation itself. An apathetic god, if you will. The god you described sounds more like the Einsteinian God, which is not an actual being, but the 'Wow-Factor' of it all.

Atheists do not believe that there are any deities whatsoever or that there ever were.

Deists believe that god created the universe and then either bailed, died, or got into a really, really long game of solitaire.
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Deism vs. Atheism

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Deism vs. Atheism - by Atheist_named_Christian - May 21, 2010 at 5:30 pm
RE: Deism vs. Atheism - by Paul the Human - May 21, 2010 at 6:07 pm
RE: Deism vs. Atheism - by Watson - May 22, 2010 at 3:47 am
RE: Deism vs. Atheism - by Edwardo Piet - May 22, 2010 at 3:17 am
RE: Deism vs. Atheism - by Atheist_named_Christian - May 22, 2010 at 5:41 am
RE: Deism vs. Atheism - by tackattack - May 22, 2010 at 6:09 am
RE: Deism vs. Atheism - by Atheist_named_Christian - May 22, 2010 at 1:51 pm
RE: Deism vs. Atheism - by The_Flying_Skeptic - May 22, 2010 at 2:17 pm
RE: Deism vs. Atheism - by The_Flying_Skeptic - May 22, 2010 at 2:04 pm
RE: Deism vs. Atheism - by Watson - May 22, 2010 at 2:11 pm
RE: Deism vs. Atheism - by Atheist_named_Christian - May 22, 2010 at 2:40 pm
RE: Deism vs. Atheism - by Caecilian - May 23, 2010 at 11:54 am
RE: Deism vs. Atheism - by Atheist_named_Christian - May 23, 2010 at 4:29 pm
RE: Deism vs. Atheism - by Paul the Human - May 23, 2010 at 11:59 am

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