Modern deism
Earlier today I was reading an article on agnosticism with relation to God (itself a response to a better article on how Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and their ilk are annoyingly agressive in how they promote atheism/put down religiosity (incidentally, Hitchens’ book “God is not Great” has possible the worst written opening paragraph I have ever read – it just screams “I am a twat”).
One comment on the article linked to a site called modern deism, which tries to encourage people to believe in God without believing in religion, essentially making up their own God as they go along. Quite what the point of this is I don’t know. Also, they claim to be in tune with modern thought, incorporating science and all that, but their inspiration for believing in God is that:
The Deist looks at existence and infers that this wonderous thing could not have been an accident.
Which is pretty much the opposite of what a lot of modern science points towards.
Anyway, I was going to quote liberally and try and be funny, but failed at the funny side. But I will leave you with:
Therefore, Deists have a common belief in God based on Reason but the view into the nature of God varies among Deists as this nature is generally unknown to us at this time.
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Tags: agnosticism, christopher hitchens, god is not great, modern deism