(August 6, 2014 at 3:09 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Well, you might have to account for said deists carrying around theistic baggage from their upbringing and peers. This is obviously anecdotal, but the deists I've known tend to interpret their deism (and others objections to it) from precisely the same point as whatever sort of theism is/was predominate in their experience. Borrowed ladders, if you will. Not just deist, of course, conversions from one theistic faith to another seem to carry recognizable baggage, and many atheists I know carry baggage from the faiths they abandoned as well.
I find it curious that I've met some deists on the internet who have a different background, they were atheists once, sometimes for 5 to 10 years, and they use the argument of 'I was an atheist once' as an excuse to justify deism being full of light and hope, it pisses me off.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
