DRMIZER
02-08-2005, 10:49 AM
"Deists don't hate the superstitious, we hate the superstition." This is the right thing to do. Billions of people are taught to be superstitious from birth. It would be foolish to hate them for that. But to hate something evil like superstition, even when it goes by the name of one of the many "revealed" religions, is a good thing. How else can the cycle be broken?
Deists believe in God, as suggested by Deist Ray Fontaine, the author of in NID (Nature's Intelligent Designer). We love God/NID and greatly appreciate the gift of life we have through the Designer's design and creation. If you love someone or something, you won't stand by while vile and disgusting things are attributed to who/what you love. Deist's love of the Creator demands that we actively oppose the Bible, which paints a derogatory picture of Nature's Intelligent Designer.
The Bible has, for example, stories that depict the Creator as killing everyone on earth in the myth of Noah's ark and the flood. It has God telling Moses and Joshua to butcher whole races of people. As a Deist, I cannot sit ideally by and refuse to take issue with such garbage. To quote Thomas Paine in his book The Age of Reason, "Is it because ye are sunk in the cruelty of superstition, or fell no interest in the honor of your Creator, that ye listen to the horrid tales of the Bible, or hear them with callous indifference?" In another part of The Age of Reason he wrote, "It is incumbent on every man who reverences the character of the Creator, and who wishes to lessen the catalogue of artificial miseries, and remove the cause that has sown persecutions thick among mankind, to expel all ideas of revealed religion, as a dangerous heresy and an impious fraud."
Thank God there were Deists to actively oppose such Biblical nonsense!
Today, reason friendly Deism is badly needed, not just in the lives of individuals, but in society in general. With the world gripped in religious war, only Deism can provide a way out. Now, however, the revealed religionists are stirring up more trouble because of their insane Bible based ideas of Armageddon. Click on the following link for a great article on this important issue http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/5211218.html
In addition to countering the deadly and destructive religious wars that are being inflicted on us, Deism is needed to counter the deadly superstition that is killing children across the country. Right now, all but a few of the 50 states in the union have religious exemptions to child abuse laws and to immunization laws. This is a direct result of coddling the unreasonable revealed religions. People would rather let little children die than to say Christianity is nonsense! http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/AAP2/ http://nccanch.acf.hhs.gov/general/legal/statutes/religious.cfm
http://www.909shot.com/state-site/legal-exemptions.htm
Because so much of our misery is caused by the superstition of the revealed religions, Deism has the most to offer the world. The strongly held reason based belief in God that is the heart of Deism can be used to bridge the gap between reason and superstition. And once the superstitious are reached with God-given reason, their superstition dies. As Tom Paine wrote in his The Age of Reason, ". . . The evidence I have produced, and shall produce in the course of this work, to prove that the Bible is without authority, will, while it wounds the stubbornness of a priest, relieve and tranquilize the minds of millions; it will free them from all those hard thoughts of the Almighty which priestcraft and the Bible had infused into their minds, and which stood in everlasting opposition to all their ideas of His moral justice and benevolence."
We need to all work together to spread the word about this beautiful life and world changing belief called Deism!
Deists believe in God, as suggested by Deist Ray Fontaine, the author of in NID (Nature's Intelligent Designer). We love God/NID and greatly appreciate the gift of life we have through the Designer's design and creation. If you love someone or something, you won't stand by while vile and disgusting things are attributed to who/what you love. Deist's love of the Creator demands that we actively oppose the Bible, which paints a derogatory picture of Nature's Intelligent Designer.
The Bible has, for example, stories that depict the Creator as killing everyone on earth in the myth of Noah's ark and the flood. It has God telling Moses and Joshua to butcher whole races of people. As a Deist, I cannot sit ideally by and refuse to take issue with such garbage. To quote Thomas Paine in his book The Age of Reason, "Is it because ye are sunk in the cruelty of superstition, or fell no interest in the honor of your Creator, that ye listen to the horrid tales of the Bible, or hear them with callous indifference?" In another part of The Age of Reason he wrote, "It is incumbent on every man who reverences the character of the Creator, and who wishes to lessen the catalogue of artificial miseries, and remove the cause that has sown persecutions thick among mankind, to expel all ideas of revealed religion, as a dangerous heresy and an impious fraud."
Thank God there were Deists to actively oppose such Biblical nonsense!
Today, reason friendly Deism is badly needed, not just in the lives of individuals, but in society in general. With the world gripped in religious war, only Deism can provide a way out. Now, however, the revealed religionists are stirring up more trouble because of their insane Bible based ideas of Armageddon. Click on the following link for a great article on this important issue http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/5211218.html
In addition to countering the deadly and destructive religious wars that are being inflicted on us, Deism is needed to counter the deadly superstition that is killing children across the country. Right now, all but a few of the 50 states in the union have religious exemptions to child abuse laws and to immunization laws. This is a direct result of coddling the unreasonable revealed religions. People would rather let little children die than to say Christianity is nonsense! http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/AAP2/ http://nccanch.acf.hhs.gov/general/legal/statutes/religious.cfm
http://www.909shot.com/state-site/legal-exemptions.htm
Because so much of our misery is caused by the superstition of the revealed religions, Deism has the most to offer the world. The strongly held reason based belief in God that is the heart of Deism can be used to bridge the gap between reason and superstition. And once the superstitious are reached with God-given reason, their superstition dies. As Tom Paine wrote in his The Age of Reason, ". . . The evidence I have produced, and shall produce in the course of this work, to prove that the Bible is without authority, will, while it wounds the stubbornness of a priest, relieve and tranquilize the minds of millions; it will free them from all those hard thoughts of the Almighty which priestcraft and the Bible had infused into their minds, and which stood in everlasting opposition to all their ideas of His moral justice and benevolence."
We need to all work together to spread the word about this beautiful life and world changing belief called Deism!