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Originally Posted by The Batlord
It's not that I don't respect the deists themselves, as they're usually far more intelligent and reasonable than most, but deists strikes me as atheists too scared to not believe in god. They get rid of everything religious, except for the actual god belief.
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Major problem for even atheists is that for a lot of people, God and the traditional ideas of heaven, hell, answered prayer, belief in sin and all the usual traditional ideas that come in the 'God package'. Even atheists cannot understand the idea of a God without all those other things attached.
But the belief in a God CAN exist without believing in prayer, the afterlife or anything else. Indeed, God doesn't need these ideas to exist.