Deism Q & A

Deism has a lot to offer you! It also has a lot to offer society! Deism is knowledge of God based on the application of our reason on the designs/laws found throughout Nature. The designs presuppose a Designer. Deism is therefore a natural religion and is not a “revealed” religion. The natural religion/philosophy of Deism frees those who embrace it from the inconsistencies of superstition and the negativity of fear that are so strongly represented in all of the “revealed” religions such as Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
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A retired US Navy officer has been censured to allowing a junior to be given anti-gay nicknames.
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He said: “I don’t think all domestic relationships are the same as traditional marriage. Marriage between a man and a woman is something that should remain elevated socially, culturally, and practically, legally, morally in our society.”
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The “Free Range Kids” blog talks about the insanity of sex-offender registries, citing the case of two fourteen year olds who sat on some other kids’ heads and are now on the registry. For the rest of their lives, they’ll have to register with the police four times a year, turn off their lights during Hallowe’en, live a set distance from bus-stops, schools and libraries and every potential employer will know that these people are on a list of “sexual predators” but will not know why. What’s more, these kids’ neighbours will be forever terrified to know that “predators” are in their neighbourhoods. Kids as young as 13 have been added to these permanent blacklists, as have people whose “sex offense” was urinating in public or other minor offenses.
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“God is closer to me than I am to myself”

It is like the ecstasy of lovers gazing into each others’ eyes, oblivious of anything except their love. True intercourse means forgetting any distinction between “your” joy and “my” joy, or love, or being, or presence, or anything else. Such awareness expands even beyond any awareness of “our” into an unimaginable and ineffable dimension of one-ness, what in Hindu teaching is called Sat-chit-ananda — “being-consciousness-bliss.”
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A study of teenagers in the US state of Massachusetts suggests that one in four are homeless.
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The day before Brandon McInerney killed his openly-gay middle school classmate Lawrence King, King allegedly passed McInerney in the hallway and called out, “Love you, baby!” Ooooh! Those repeated come-ons made McInerney so darned mad!!! Why, he simply had no choice but to blow out King’s brains with a handgun as his 24 horrified classmates watched.
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Someone identifying himself as “a conservative Christian” has killed more than 90 people in Norway yesterday, most of them kids & teenagers. The fact that Norway is the country with the highest quality of living & education, one of the wealthiest of the world and ranks among the top with the other Scandinavian countries when it comes to social fairness & equality makes it hard to understand what reason there possibly could be to drive someone to such actions.The one thing giving me hope is to see the sane reactions of the Norwegians. The title of this post is a quote from Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.
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