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Deism:
So why didn't Deism thrive and over-take Theism? Especially as we've moved into a much more modern and literate society?
What's the problem with Deism?
Does it not offer the "reward/punishment" system of "justice" that many crave?
Is it a "hopeless" ideology? The whole "not interacting with humans" part is the catch?
I mean, it covers the bases for "how all this got started" and allows for all the "intelligent design" and "watchmaker" trains of thought.
It covers the idea of evolution and other stumbling blocks that many theistic religion are at odds over.
Many of the USofA's founding fathers were Deists.
So why has deism basically seemed to disappear from modern society?
Clearly its easy to point to a ginormous lack of "god/supernatural interaction" with mankind over the last few thousand years.
A "supreme being" doesn't even have to be a "supernatural being" does it? Is that the problem?
Deism seems to check some boxes that theism doesn't, some I'm wondering why it's all but disappeared from modern society?
Thoughts?
- belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe. The term is used chiefly of an intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries that accepted the existence of a creator on the basis of reason but rejected belief in a supernatural deity who interacts with humankind.
So why didn't Deism thrive and over-take Theism? Especially as we've moved into a much more modern and literate society?
What's the problem with Deism?
Does it not offer the "reward/punishment" system of "justice" that many crave?
Is it a "hopeless" ideology? The whole "not interacting with humans" part is the catch?
I mean, it covers the bases for "how all this got started" and allows for all the "intelligent design" and "watchmaker" trains of thought.
It covers the idea of evolution and other stumbling blocks that many theistic religion are at odds over.
Many of the USofA's founding fathers were Deists.
So why has deism basically seemed to disappear from modern society?
Clearly its easy to point to a ginormous lack of "god/supernatural interaction" with mankind over the last few thousand years.
A "supreme being" doesn't even have to be a "supernatural being" does it? Is that the problem?
Deism seems to check some boxes that theism doesn't, some I'm wondering why it's all but disappeared from modern society?
Thoughts?
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