Deism vs. Theism—Or: Why I am Such a Spiritual Person

Deism vs. Theism—Or: Why I am Such a Spiritual Person

Deism is the belief in a creative demiurge.  Theism is the belief that God intervenes in human affairs.

A deist believes that God created the world and then retired to a better place.  A theist believes that God cares about your conduct: who you marry and how often you pray, whether or not, or when, you eat bacon and fish sticks, etc.

Is it then possible to be an atheist and still believe in God?  Strangely, the word adeist does not exist in the language.

The word spiritual is necessarily meaningless and ought to be stricken from our vocabulary.  When people say that they are “spiritual,” I suspect that they mean they are deists—believers in God who do not adhere to any particular form of religiosity.

Joseph Suglia