Why are deists so annoying?

[Napoléon]

However, if it's an instinctive or emotionally held belief and the believer has admitted to having no proof, what possible value is does badgering him with the fact he has no proof serve?

Yeah, I'm just gonna chime in and say, this is totally not what I've been doing throughout this thread, you've misrepresented me here.

I never once asked him for proof. I haven't been badgering him for proof. If you actually read what I've wrote you'd know that. I don't care about him providing evidence, all I was asking for was for him to explain why he believes, why he's being irrational. Why he's happy to be irrational on the point about god but not other things

I'm not gonna respond to DP again unless he really wants me to, I can't see the discussion going much further. He has given answers and though I don't find many of them satisfactory, I don't see much more point in prolonging this and making more of it than necessary.


As for not questioning people just because their beliefs are emotional, or they're instinctive, or because it serves no purpose, or because he's a deist, or whatever other ridiculous assertion, that's total and absolute bullshit. Nobody's beliefs should be immune to scrutiny, regardless of whether they're shoving said beliefs down everyone else's throat, or whether that belief is part of a larger doctrine. None of that matters. What matters is that someone is being irrational when it comes to what they believe. It's not bad to question that. It's not wrong. It's not purposeless. A belief may be harmless enough sure, but that's completely besides every point I've ever made in this thread.