What is the main problem you see with deism?

Answer 1

that God has no dealings with the affairs of this world.

Answer 2

Nothing whatsoever. Zero Cool said that 'it considers God to be real' - but a god that doesn't tell people not to research on stem cells, a god that doesn't condemn gays or other religions, a god that doesn't accept tithes, a god that has never inspired people to mass-murder is a god that is okay in my books.

I consider deism to be 99% atheism anyway. As a lifestyle they're interchangeable. That's what matters to a secularist. The small difference in belief is rather arcane, in fact.

Answer 3

Deism is defined in Webster's Encyclopedic Dictionary, 1941, as: "[From Latin Deus, God.Deity] The doctrine or creed of a Deist." And Deist is defined in the same dictionary as: "One who believes in the existence of a God or supreme being but denies revealed religion, basing his belief on the light of nature and reason."

This common sense approach to God and a spiritual philosophy can not only bring a lasting profound sense of peace and happiness to the individual, but it also has the potential to go light years in eradicating religious fear, superstition and violence.

How do Deists view God? We view God as an eternal entity whose power is equal to his/her will. The following quote from Albert Einstein also offers a good Deistic description of God:

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God."

Is Deism a cult? It's impossible for Deism to be a cult because Deism teaches self-reliance and encourages people to constantly use their reason. Deism teaches to "question authority" no matter what the cost.

Unlike the revealed religions, Deism makes no unreasonable claims. The revealed religions encourage people to give up, or at least to suspend, their God-given reason. They like to call it faith. For example, how logical is it to believe that Moses parted the Red Sea, or that Jesus walked on water, or that Mohammed received the Koran from an angel? Suspending your reason enough to believe these tales only sets a precedent that leads to believing a Jim Jones or David Koresh.

What's Deism's answer to all the evil in the world? Much of the evil in the world could be overcome or removed if humanity had embraced our God-given reason from our earliest evolutionary stages. After all, all the laws of nature that we've discovered and learned to use to our advantage that make everything from computers to medicine to space travel realities, have existed eternally. But we've decided we'd rather live in superstition and fear instead of learning and gaining knowledge. It's much more soothing to believe we're not responsible for our own actions than to actually do the hard work required for success.

Deism doesn't claim to have all the answers to everything, we just claim to be on the right path to those answers.

No problem at all.

Answer 4

I see two problems.

1. A total lack of credible evidence to justify it.
2. You can't explain the origin of complexity by prior complexity.

Answer 5

It controls populations and teaches people give up rational thinking for dogma. It hinders thought and overall human progress and is responsible for massive death throughout history and the slowing of technology, communication and human logic.

Answer 6

It considers God to be real. EdSawyer says that believing in a god that isn't involved at all in our life is ok, but to that I would reply that believing in ANY delusion isn't "ok".

Answer 7

The part where you have to devote your life to a invisible friend.

Answer 8

Believing things that are not true is never good for you.

Answer 9

contradictory belief systems.

Answer 10

the question of "Why did God create if he didn't want to be worshipped?"

it's insulting to God.