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<\/a><\/div>\n While green could have more naturally been used to indicate a positive situation, the maker of the image chose to throw in a snarky \u201cbut still irrational.\u201d<\/p>\n
What, pray tell, if anything, is irrational about Deism?<\/p>\n
Deism is a viewpoint that only accepts that which is rational, eschews the supernatural, and only has room for the God that many philosophers have posited, an abstract prime mover.<\/p>\n
One may disagree with Deism if one wishes. But isn't the suggestion that it is irrational an indication either that the person who made the graphic took a swipe at a label he or she does not fully understand, or that the individual has a general dislike of any and all sorts of religion which might itself be deemed irrational? <\/p>\n
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Joel Watts shared this image on his blog: While green could have more naturally been used to indicate a positive situation, the maker of the image chose to throw in a snarky \u201cbut still irrational.\u201d What, pray tell, if anything, is irrational about Deism? Deism is a viewpoint that only accepts that which is rational, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[870,872,2564,2565,4005,9977,9980,10016],"class_list":["post-15220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism-religion","tag-atheism-religion","tag-atheists","tag-deism","tag-deist","tag-god","tag-rational","tag-rationalist","tag-reason"],"yoast_head":"\n
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