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| Deist?Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:06:26 -0700 by tyrongkojyPlease, I would like to hear from you all.I have a question. How many other atheists out there were at one time deists? I was. Indeed, I tried to keep my belief in a holy father. I had been thinking for quite some time, why did God only reveal himself to the Mid-East? Why did he not tell the other peoples of the world? Surely he could. Then it occurred to me. He did! He had to of! All those other faiths and religions must have been God! He simply told them all different things! It explained why so many of their fables were so similar, certainly. Now, I was always a believer in fossils, and all the science therin. If they were created by the Devil, God would have let us know far more blatantly, and God certainly could not have put them there to make it look like evolution had occurred just to fool us, because that would make God a liar. I understood the bible itself had been written by humans throughout time. After all, it's printed by us, and subject to misinterpretation. And don't get me started on translation, so tons of things could be wrong. But I thought nothing of it. I saw the evidence, and unless God was a liar, the universe had to have been older than what the bible made it out to be. So there it was. Later on I thought more about it, and one thought kept coming to mind. Why would God do that, and just let these people fight? He was God. He could certainly stop it if he wanted, and set it all straight; tell everyone that he had just told these people things that they could relate to. He had appeared so many times in so many other faiths as so many other Gods and even as the Christian God himself that it was within his power. But he didn't. He never did, even today. Why? Why, I asked myself. Perhaps he never appeared as a burning bush, or as Zeus, or Thor, or Quezequatl. Perhaps those were all exaggerations or ignorant people who certainly had no idea what lightening was, attributing it to God. So did he have any power of the universe? The more I looked at it the more I though that no, he did not. I realised that all that was left of God was the creation of the Big Bang. That was all that was left. And I knew that someday, maybe not for 1000 years but someday science would know what happened there, too. And I knew. God was nowhere. There was no deity. No Divine guiding light. Nothing. I was open all throughout my Deist phase for a heaven, and a God that had no power, or chose not to interfere. It made sense. For that longest time this was so. Me trying to hold my faith in a God with science, with what I could see, touch, and feel. But then I realised there was only one refuge for God's power to hide. And that refuge would be discovered, quite unlike America and certain bearded Arab man. So I go back to my original question. How many other atheists out there were at one time deists? I assume those that started off theist went through that phase, but I was confirmation. Evidence. Please in a comment or better yet a video response. Thank you for your time, and may His Noodly Appendage fall upon you. Ramen.Note: the reasons said are only some, basic. There are far too many to even remember all at once, or mention in ten minute youtube vid.Please rate and comment. Related: god satan hitler jesus anime japan everything blah religion athiest muslum hindu jewish christian catholic |
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