Reply To: Okay, Nerdy Keith, I'll bite: Why would someone be a deist?

[Thomas Paine]

OK, Deism evolved during the Age of Enlightment – many Philosophers and thinkers of that age, my favorites include Hume and Thomas Paine, espoused this concept.

Yes, they posited that there as a creator who set up the rules of nature, then gave it a spin, letting it operate under its own steam.

Where they had a grind was with organized religion and all of the bible. The Bible being one giant pile of BS without any proof that a fucking thing in it was little more than untraceable, hearsay, fairy tales and shitty poetry.

If you’ll take the time to read Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason ,even if only a few chapters,you really get a wonderfullly cogent and brilliant argument that far surpasses anything you’ll find on any blog or podcast dealing with disbelief.

That said, I feel that most men of he Enlightenment simply wanted to avoid prison or e en death for being atheists. By disconnecting an activists intervening God from Nature it isn’t a great leap to why do we need a church or religion at all?