Is deism the last hurdle for religious people to overcome before they can have a fully rational perception?
Jul 29, 2009 by Desiree | Posted in Religion & Spirituality
You advised of, a typical religious person starts life being programmed to believe in some stuff that is completely without substantiation and to believe that an old book of nonsense stories is the inerrant word of the only real god and it contains answers to all of time’s problems written in highly ambiguous nursery rhymes that don’t rhyme, and these poor children should devote every Sunday to worrisome to unravel the mysteries of these silly stories that are not even the original silly stories but have been retranslated and rehashed over and over during the last few thousands years.
Then one day the common religious person wakes up and says, “Hang on, this stuff just doesn’t gauge sense!” But being unwilling to let go of the comforting belief in a higher power and being unwilling to be ostracized from their community, they hold a casual belief in a higher power. This is the deism stage of a typical religious person’s awakening. So is deism the immutable hurdle that must be overcome before religious people can have a fully rational perception that is not obscured by any preconceived holy beliefs?
Lmao. Why, yes. The Bible-humper himself is at long last looking to be deified. I think you're on to something!
Lisa P | Jul 29, 2009
A myself can have a rational perspective whether they are a theist, deist, or atheist.
Some people do go through deism as an intermediate stage but some don't.
No One | Jul 29, 2009
To all intents, but i value my insanity. Normal people are boring and a waste of my time.
I am | Jul 29, 2009
A stop to using the reason God equipped you with to reject Him.
chdoctor | Jul 29, 2009
if that is what you stress to believe to make yourself happy Desiree
then yes
oh to be as sane and rational as you
Pangel - Luvs Jeff S | Jul 29, 2009
I consider the only people who truly don't have a fully rational perception are those that think they have a monopoly on what is and what is not rational perception.
Phantom of the Scoffera | Jul 29, 2009
They have to let go of their selfishness first before they can even Dream up about a fully rational perception.
Dr. Jazz ♥♥ Eνιl Aтнєιѕтs ♥♥ | Jul 29, 2009
Yes! It happens this way in many people's lives. I, myself, missing my faith, and could not logically make sense of any of it.
One day I came to the conclusion that every one person has a different idea about what "God" is. Weak intuition can not be denied, nor can the blessed lives that the faithful have. If you have 'a' faith, it will bless you.
Mine is energy, and positivity. God is everything. Verbatim.
phyrekiss | Jul 29, 2009
Seems that way... but it isn't contemporary to happen soon. Media reinforces the idea that some people deserve worship. There will continue to be one-horse gods until humans are gone.
Hermes | Jul 29, 2009
You might be considered down-to-earth yourself if you spent your free time actually doing something constructive as opposed to your virulent ranting about other's beliefs.
Desiree, is it wise to waste your life worrying about what others believe in?
Griz | Jul 29, 2009
I claimed to be diest for about 3 years before i let go of all the fairy tales. I have faith you are right. I hung on it until i was certain.
Karst | Jul 29, 2009
Well said. This is something I have noticed, although more than "deism" I see people claiming to be "inner not religious". (maybe some people consider that the same thing) Also I feel people who call themselves pagans serve to fit this description.
Obey me or go to hell. Love, god | Jul 29, 2009
Would you rub my forehead?
Warf Son of Mohg | Jul 29, 2009
who are you to say what "normal perception" is?
reality is in the eyes of the beholder
SONIC | Jul 29, 2009
What's your last obstruction Desiree? The hate and enmity you show here in every single question and answer of yours is far from rational, it actually borders on paranoia and hallucination.
10Cane [God help the Giants] | Jul 29, 2009
umm.... no.
It can be for some people, but I would about that a person who suddenly realises that that stuff doesn't make sense, he would probably think about it, enquiry and then decide.
it's not the last hurdle in the same way that agnosticisism is not what comes before atheism.
it was for me (lol), but many people can be agnostics and deists without changing to atheism.
Emma K | Jul 29, 2009
You are missing the alteration between faithful and religious. Your little rant left out the ones who come to Christ as adults.
superb9006 | Jul 29, 2009
I thoughtfulness about answering but then I woke up and realized. you can't have a rational conversation with an idiot.
archendma | Jul 29, 2009
Correct knowledge is the first step to rational perception.
Obviously not all interpretations of the Bible are right.
Twisting the Scriptures to fit your own ideas can consequence in lasting harm. (2 Peter 3:15, 16).
Two things can help us understand the Bible correctly. First, heed the context (surrounding verses) of any statement. Next, compare texts with other statements in the Bible that deal with the same discussed. In that way we are letting God's own Word guide our thinking, and the interpretation is not ours but his. That is the approach taken in the Watch Tower publications.
courtneyconstance | Jul 29, 2009
What are the natural predators (if any) of the bed bug?
Jul 28, 2009 by Fresserheim | Posted in Zoology
The bed bug was only known from a nursery poetry for a long time until the government of Richard Nixon (!) banned DDT.
Incidentally, the science referenced to subsistence that ban was faulty.
It seems DDT was really banned because it was so successful at dealing with mosquitoes in Africa and elsewhere in the 3rd world that
they who push residents reduction went to work to have it, DDT, banned. And they got their wish. Millions have died in Africa from malaria and other mosquito-borne illnesses as a consequence of that genocidal firmness.
The fact is, the ban was a result of the book SILENT SPRING, which has been discredited in the scientific community.
The author of the above-mentioned regulations SILENT SPRING was Rachel Carson, whom the Rockefellers paid under the table for her alarmist screed.
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give a catalogue........or die
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