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I always considered myself an athesit untill I discovered deism. But I am not sure about the definition. If I think there is a "creator" like a superior transcendental force (maybe not even "conscious", just something above the Universe), rather than a God who just dont interfer with us, is it deism ?

People on this sub are a lot more open minded and willing to debate about theology in a way that is smart and informative. Whereas in r/atheism I just see endless posts bashing religion, especially Christianity. I would describe myself as an agnostic, I really don't claim to know what the real answers are, but I would rather explore what the answers might be with people on r/deism than the negative people on r/atheism.

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I realise in many different deism group there are a lot of atheists and sometimes religious which try to impose their definition of deism, ( normally a narrow definition) to deists. Do you believe there some sectarian interest in it? Give me your opinions.

Curious to see what most of our backgrounds are.

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Basically what the title says, I'm pretty sure that I am a deist and wanted to explore a bit more of the beliefs that exist inside it.

From what I've read so far, seems like neo-deism tries to incorporate science... I did some research but ended up not understanding that much.

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I keep seeing people in this subreddit define deism as the belief that God does not intervene in the universe. This is not, and has never been, correct.

Deism is the position that reason and logic are sufficient instruments through which we may justify a belief that God exists. It denies that we must rely upon revelation or the word of prophets to ground our faith, and instead points to God's creation itself (the universe) as evidence of God's existence.

Beyond that, deism doesn't promote any doctrine or canon. Individual deists may hold wildly different views, and on the subject of divine intervention its adherents will disagree amongst themselves. But never has it been a fundamental part of deism to reject that God is actively involved in the affairs of the world.

So why does everyone keep saying otherwise?

I was originally a Christian, but slowly as I started looking into science I realized It doesn’t really make sense. I started thinking today and I want to convert. Can I have advice please? Also I’d like to know more about this belief.

The freedom for you to swing your first ends at the tip of my nose. Other than love, Christianity is slave morality. My own beliefs are do no harm, and take no shit. I and most other Deists for that matter do not care if our criticisms towards Christianity offend you.

To put it bluntly from Mark Twain; "If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be, - a Christian."

Deists thoroughly reject revealed Religion. The universe and earth are proof enough of the existence of God/Creator/Supreme Intelligence for us. I don't have a problem with Christians being Deists, but I do have a problem when you try and shove your religion into Deism.

I´ve grown up in an evangelical Lutheran family and I'm definitely culturally a Lutheran. But i don´t believe that Jesus was anything other than a wise man. I believe that god created the universe and man in his image. I don´t believe that god needed to change or interfere with his creations (The universe and creatures) since he made them perfect in the first place. Does that make me a deist?

I really like this idea

It seems void of gaslighting when you ask basic questions

And just makes so much more sense

I like this a lot just makes a lot more sense

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I'll go straight to the point: Does "sacred geometry" clash in ANY way with Deism? Before discovering I was deist I was really into Sacred Geometry. I still like the whole concept of Sacred Geometry and stuff like this, even though I don't really think about it.

Obviously there are different flavora of Deism but if you're Deist, do you follow specific or general Rules or Lessons from the Bible or maybe even other religious doctrines?

De meeste mensen denken dat ik tegen religie ben, maar dat is niet waar. Ik volg een deïstische filosofie. Dat betekent dat ik door alles met een rationele lens kijk, en dat ik ook in God geloof. Ook al lijk ik soms ruw, ik heb mijn geloof nooit verloren. De mensen van mijn land geloven in een mislijdend geloof van Katholisme. Dat ben ik echt tegen.

I'm constantly torn between believing and not believing in God. While I think the Abrahamic God is unlikely to exist (way too human like) I'm not taking any chances of being sent to hell when I die. So I've decided to try to be a good human while I still live and hopefully the creator is as merciful as they say.

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omnibenevolent - infinitely good

omnipresent - present everywhere

omnipotent - all-powerful

omniscient - all-knowing

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I've been thinking about this recently. If the Creator is all-powerful, why don't they supernaturally intervene and why did they design the universe to allow genetic diseases, cancer, etc. I personally believe that the Creator can't be omnibenevolent to human moral standards if that makes sense, as the Creator isn't human. I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Has anyone already made a Discord server? If not, it wouldn't be a bad idea to make one.

Just stumbled on this sub. I'm shocked to see that it only has 8.5 thousand members, while atheism is sitting at a pretty 3 million and the major religious subs have a few hundred thousand.

I don't think I've ever met a person IRL who identified as a deist. It's either someone who is religious, no longer religious (but is a believer) or atheist.

I personally used to be devoutly religious but moved away for several reasons that I won't burden y'all with, but I've given many years of my life to the church, without much to show for it.

First off, I don't believe in atheism or subscribe to the everything's chance borne out of nothing, everything is meaningless ideology; if I had a room-temperature IQ I'd consider this. On the other hand, the supreme being who you will grant you your requests if you pray earnestly... yeah, I haven't seen evidence of this either. Prayer is a plea to God to defy the law of physics or probability.

My problem with atheism: Most atheists just seem like perpetually angry, loud-mouth douches. Just looking to lash out on someone, anyone as a coping mechanism. Many times more evangelical and preachy than the biggest religious zealots. Nothing appealing about being a part of this group.

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Problem with religion: 95% of the folks follow their beliefs due to: Tradition, entertainment, habit, a form of therapy. I don't find too many folks for example who I can say: "you're so nice, you must be a follower of Christ the way you treat people!" Most things that they believe are confirmation biases.

But I digress...

I believe in a creator but one whom very seldom interferes with humanity. I'm just wondering why it's always one of the two aforementioned categories and the belief of deism is not that popular.

People who believe in the existance of God or a kind of God is quite common, and it always fascinates me when so many people claim a belief in the existance of God or a comparable type of higher power/force/energy/consciousness, but don't hold any other beliefs that might fall under the category of being supernatural, paranormal or mystical. There's many who believe in God but don't believe in things like the Devil, ghosts, angels, demons, Heaven, Hell, the afterlife, etc. and are quick to dismiss the existance of these things or phenomena. It seems for such people, God doesn't fall under the category of being supernatural or paranormal. A belief in God for many doesn't equate or translate to believing in these other beings or phenomena. Surprisingly there's even plenty of people of various religious backgrounds who are similar, with there being numerous Catholics, Christians, etc. who despite their belief in God don't believe in things like the Devil or ghosts.

If you're among those who believe in God but nothing else that's considered supernatural, what else do you consider God? Do you consider God more to be say, more cosmic or elemental, as opposed to being something supernatural or paranormal? I think who or what God is or might be is something we'll never truly understand or comprehend, and I'm not sure if supernatural is the proper word to describe God since that has such strong connotations of things like ghosts and demons, both of which many God-believing people don't share such a belief in. Many often regard the Devil as more of a metaphorical symbol for evil as opposed to a literal being.

I'm fascinated by people who claim belief in God but not the supernatural or demonic.

Have you ever come across someone who claims that they are no longer a deist? If so, did you find his arguments convincing? I only know someone from r/Psychonaut, who claims to go from deism to atheism because of a trip he had, which I think is nonsense.