Number of posts: 356 Location:: Arizona Registration date: 2007-09-19
Subject: Re: Modern Deism vs "classical" Deism Sat Oct 06, 2007 7:41 am
Modern Deists believe there is no objective Truth and therefore it can be anything they want to believe with the ultimate objective of not offending anyone. Classical Deists believe in facing the painful Truth, which is wherever the evidence and facts may lead.
Number of posts: 1913 Age: 41 Location:: Connecticut Registration date: 2007-01-24
Subject: Re: Modern Deism vs "classical" Deism Mon Oct 08, 2007 9:37 am
The Paineful Truth wrote:
What differentiates you from classical deism?
I was going to write a long post about the beliefs of the various groups of classical deists and how and where those beliefs came from, and then I was going to compare and contrast those beliefs with mine. But then it occurred to me that there's really no need to go into all of that detail because the difference is really very simple.
I see existence as divine in and of itself. I think most of the classical deists viewed existence as a creation of the divine.
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Number of posts: 540 Age: 52 Location:: Toronto Registration date: 2007-09-14
Subject: Re: Modern Deism vs "classical" Deism Mon Oct 08, 2007 5:50 pm
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Modern Deists believe there is no objective Truth and therefore it can be anything they want to believe with the ultimate objective of not offending anyone. Classical Deists believe in facing the painful Truth, which is wherever the evidence and facts may lead.
Well I looked up the word prejudicial in the dictionary and that paragraph was listed as one of the examples!!!
Subject: Modern Deism vs "classical" Deism 
and that paragraph was listed as one of the examples!!!