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deism

  1. Feb 23 - Handel Is Born, Composer Of The Messiah, Now The Famous And Popular Religious Choral Work

    Feb 23 - Handel Is Born, Composer Of The Messiah, Now The Famous And Popular Religious Choral Work

    Today in 1686 we travel to Germany and the city of Halle and remember the birth of George Frederick Handel, composer of the oratorio "Messiah," which is now one of the best-known and most frequently performed choral works in Western music. The text, based on scripture compiled by Charles...
  2. Not David

    Free Will and Deism

    Getting away from BLM and ACAB (All Cars are Big?)... So, we believe God gives us free will but God being personal with us and the world would not mean he is interference in a certain way and conflicting with "free will"? Wouldn't us free will require God being deistic, even when it goes...
  3. thomas_t

    There Are a Thousand Gods. Is It Impossible To Make Choices?

    According to Dr Michael Shermer, there are a thousand gods around*. And many more non-theistic religions. Here is an overview of the important ones: BBC - Religion: Religions Atheists commonly say that it makes no sense to believe that one religion has it right and all the others fail in some...
  4. SocratesNow

    What reasoning allows for the transition from Deism to Theism?

    The debate about God's existence is a common one. However, one issue which is rarely, if ever, discussed with enough focus, is the question of what arguments can be used to show how the belief that there was a first creator, an intelligent designer of the universe, can be reasonably translated...
  5. public hermit

    Agere sequitur esse and the First Way

    If you are familiar with Aquinas's Five Ways, then you know the First Way is the argument from motion. To wit: "The first and more manifest way is the argument from motion. It is certain, and evident to our senses, that in the world some things are in motion. Now whatever is in motion is put in...