Deist appears to be a rather broad umbrella. My husband calls himself a deist. He means that he believes that there is higher power of some kind "out there." He doesn't think it has any interest people or that it is necessarily omnipotent or aware of everything. It's a disinterested higher power. Also he doesn't claim to be able to prove it or that it is provable. If you claimed to have evidence of such a being he'd be highly skeptical. He does not consider our lack of knowledge proof of such a being. It's a gut feeling not a rationally held belief and he knows it.
Practically speaking though, he's just a hair's breadth from atheist. He belief does not affect his behavior, or his skepticism about woo generally.
Practically speaking though, he's just a hair's breadth from atheist. He belief does not affect his behavior, or his skepticism about woo generally.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
