Are There Any Deists in Here Beside Myself? (atheist, quote, God)

[thrillobyte]

Raise your hand. Maybe we can get our own subforum.

[Freak80]

A deist sub forum was created, but since then the creator left the sub forum to evolve on its own without interference.

[thrillobyte]

Originally Posted by Freak80

A deist sub forum was created, but since then the creator left the sub forum to evolve on its own without interference.

I don't understand. A subforum can only be created by the owners of City Data. It would then be moderated by one of the current moderators.

[Nosmas]

Originally Posted by Freak80

A deist sub forum was created, but since then the creator left the sub forum to evolve on its own without interference.

I see what you did there.

[Vacanegro]

Originally Posted by Freak80

A deist sub forum was created, but since then the creator left the sub forum to evolve on its own without interference.

Oh God no.

[Freak80]

Originally Posted by thrillobyte

I don't understand. A subforum can only be created by the owners of City Data. It would then be moderated by one of the current moderators.

I was making an attempt at humor.

Why would a deist forum be moderated by its creator after it was created? Get it?

[Hannibal Flavius]

Originally Posted by freak80

i was making an attempt at humor.

why would a deist forum be moderated by its creator after it was created? Get it? :d

freak!

[thrillobyte]

Originally Posted by Freak80

I was making an attempt at humor.

Why would a deist forum be moderated by its creator after it was created? Get it?

Oh Lord, I AM getting old!

[Continuum]

I am not a deist but I believe deism is the highest and most advanced form of theism.

[mordant]

I'm pretty sure I've bumped into a couple of deists around here over the years but can't remember who they were offhand.

I think that a deist has a lot of common cause with atheism and to a lesser extent with pantheism and panentheism and even paganism, so I would not feel completely lost at sea here. Many theists do not believe in personal interventionist gods. Deism is only just making a minimal number of claims about god being comprehensible or effable, whereas, say, a pantheist has a few more fully formed and embraced ideas about the nature of gods and their involvement with mortals.

As an atheist I have affinity for Deist thought, as it is 98% of the way there, only choosing to believe in some vague generic "sortagod" (Arq's term I believe) which to me is not much of a belief and not something there can be much practical disagreement about. No holy book, no real dogma, no imposed moral code or taint of sin. Not much for me to object to ;-) And more to the point, you're not going to get up to any mischief trying to turn the country into a theocracy or imposing your behavioral norms and customs on outsiders.