Deism: I don't get it

[Cinjin]

Get away from the eternal torment stuff. I don't believe the bible teaches it.

Should I listen to you and your god or should I listen to the other 200+ million christians that disagree with you. hmmmmm

Anyway, the deist position that God doesn't care is based on their own idea of what God should be and not what he is.

I have no idea what god should be. The difference between you and I is that I don't go around claiming to know what he is.

It's like "If he lets us suffer, then he doesn't care or he doesn't exist."

Nope, never said that. Don't get me wrong it's true I've said he doesn't exist, but it has nothing to do with whether or not he allows people to suffer. People suffer. Its just life.

The Bible is a work of fiction with the occasional historical place or location thrown in to lend some sort of credence to it. It's painfully obvious that Yahweh is a creation of men. The reason I don't tell anyone about the characteristics of the creator being is simply because that is unknowable ...... and I don't want to look like a big raging douchebag who knows the personality traits of an all-powerful being that no one has ever seen.


Nevermind. I digress. You're never going to see the irony anyway.