Thoughts on Deism?

[Shogun]

Taken from their website:

Deism is knowledge of God based on the application of our reason on the designs/laws found throughout Nature. The designs presuppose a Designer. Deism is therefore a natural religion and is not a "revealed" religion. The natural religion/philosophy of Deism frees those who embrace it from the inconsistencies of superstition and the negativity of fear that are so strongly represented in all of the "revealed" religions such as Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

http://www.deism.com/deism_defined.htm

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Theism-Lite......makes even less sense than theism, but more rational than atheism.

The religious equivalent of 'culture vultures'.​

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

I find it to be a reasonable stance, though i wonder if it could truly be considered a religion. I suppose it can.

Intricate designs can be found as naturally occuring in many many different ways and places on earth and the universe and the fair amount of order that systems of intricate designs find them in is more than decent proof to me of an intelligent designer/God. To me, its part of the basis i have in my nuanced personal religious views.

 

[Turk]

Theism-Lite......makes even less sense than theism, but more rational than atheism.

The religious equivalent of 'culture vultures'.​

How does this make even less sense than Theism? They believe in a non-interfering God.........that makes more sense than a lot of types of Theism.

 

[Fervid]

Theism-Lite......makes even less sense than theism, but more rational than atheism.

The religious equivalent of 'culture vultures'.​

How? I don't view one more rational than the other.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

How does this make even less sense than Theism? They believe in a non-interfering God.

What's the point of worshipping it or even acknowledging its existence? Absolutely none.​

How? I don't view one more rational than the other.

Read William Kingdon Clifford's Ethics of Belief.​

 

[Turk]

What's the point of worshipping it or even acknowledging its existence? Absolutely none.​

Deist's don't worship God though

 

[Thsnnor]

Taken from their website:

http://www.deism.com/deism_defined.htm

It sounds like the force from Star Wars. There is god everywhere.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Deist's don't worship God though

What's the point of worshipping it or even acknowledging its existence?