Curious about Non Christians on DU

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59. Sincere congrats for even knowing the difference

There are a huge number of nominal Christians who when they speak of their beliefs are clearly describing Deism, but almost all of them I've met react in shock and horror when told so. Sure they believe in a universal impersonal creative force who takes no active part in our daily lives but dammit it's a Christian universal impersonal force!

I'm not a Deist. For me it's still a bit too god-of-the-gaps ish, but at least it is a rationally defensible logically sound inference. Nobody can definitively show the precise what or how of the very first instant of the singularity, and both physicists and philosophers go nuts trying to decide if "before the singularity" is even a cogent statement. We are so far from asking the why part or even knowing if THAT's a cogent question that the leap to "well something a bit like a god must have had something to do with it" is at least understandable, even though it kind of flies in the face of Occam a bit. It's when you start definitively claiming that that something a bit like a god cares who you marry or what you do with your weekend mornings that it becomes just groundless nonsense.