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Originally Posted by RVCA
What Duce detailed is not quite the same as deism. A deity who has predetermined all of time already is not the being of deism, who merely gave birth to everything and stepped back to let it run of its own accord.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding deism, or maybe there are different "versions" of it. But a deist regards the tenets of all organized religions as rubbish. Jesus, the afterlife... these are things that a deist rejects. In fact, Duce described himself as a "gnostic Christian" which seems incompatible with deism.
At least, this is according to Wikipedia and deism.com, which may not be reliable sources of authority on deism. |
Yeah that definitely is deism. There can't be any kind of interference with the natural world except for the original action of creating it.
Pretty interesting how it bridged a gap for the enlightenment period for scientists to have free roam for exploring scientific without any thing holding them back because they didn't have to subscribe to existing supernatural explanations all while still keeping it within the scope of theism. Which was probably very important to ensure that they weren't 100% alienating and rejected by their peers.