2007-10-13 16:48:36 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
*sigh* Because gods don't exist, not even ones that sit back and watch us shoot ourselves in the feet.
2007-10-13 16:51:40 · answer #1 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 17⤊ 1⤋
A Deist is what I'd be if I were a scientist living in a country that still hanged people for being an atheist. Fortunately, this is the twenty-first century and I live in the USA, where religious bigots are not allowed to execute people for daring to disagree with them. This means I am free to speak the truth. I am an atheist.
2007-10-14 00:05:02 · answer #2 · answered by Diogenes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was a deist once. I decided that a deist God would be completely unnecessary to the universe, so I became atheist.
2007-10-13 23:55:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because Deists assume that there was some sort of conscious creator of the universe. Atheists don't believe the universe was "created".
2007-10-13 23:54:20 · answer #4 · answered by skepsis 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
hey, I went through a deist stage during my deconversion...
but it was really pointless to me. it was an attempt to cling to the idea of god, but in the end I found deism useless. If there is a god, but doesn't interact or show itself, and doesn't answer prayers, and doesn't demand worship...well, who cares about it? obviously we can live well without the influence of a deity, in such a case. and once I decided that the unvierse was capable of existing without a god, the concept flittered away into nothingness.
2007-10-13 23:54:33 · answer #5 · answered by Rin 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Does Occam's Razor mean anything to you? God isn't necessary to explain the universe, so I don't believe in him. Not even the Deist version of God.
2007-10-13 23:57:49 · answer #6 · answered by JavaGirl ~AM~ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Psalm 14
1 The fool has said in his heart,
“There is no God.”
They are corrupt,
They have done abominable works,
There is none who does good.
2 The LORD looks down from heaven upon the children of men,
To see if there are any who understand, who seek God.
3 They have all turned aside,
They have together become corrupt;
There is none who does good,
No, not one.
4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge,
Who eat up my people as they eat bread,
And do not call on the LORD?
5 There they are in great fear,
For God is with the generation of the righteous.
6 You shame the counsel of the poor,
But the LORD is his refuge.
7 Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!
When the LORD brings back the captivity of His people,
Let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad.
2007-10-13 23:56:50 · answer #7 · answered by Sam L 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Well...I used to be a Deist. But to be a Deist...you have to believe in a Deity. I don't. Therefore I an an atheist.
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2007-10-13 23:52:44 · answer #8 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Because "God, who created the earth and then retired to a quiet life of gardening" is only slightly less silly and reprehensible than "God, who continues to twaddle with things behind the scenes".
2007-10-13 23:54:48 · answer #9 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Deism adds unnecessary complications to the whole thing. It'd make God kinda pointless, no?
2007-10-14 22:04:01 · answer #10 · answered by v35322 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't be deist if I don't believe in god.
2007-10-13 23:55:58 · answer #11 · answered by atheist 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋