A recent survey on religion shows there are 34
million Americans who are classified as "Nones", that is they do
not embrace any of the "revealed" religions and the vast
majority of them are not Atheists. In actuality, the vast
majority of the "Nones" are actually Deists!
The survey shows a giant step forward for Deism in the fact that it
actually uses the word "Deist" and for the very significant raw
numbers it shows as representing the number of people who are
Deists. In reality, the number of Deists is actually
higher than the survey shows because the survey uses an outdated
definition of Deist. For a more accurate definition please see
our Deism
Defined page.
Click here to read the
actual survey. (It's in PDF)
Why Deism? The Bible just didn't add up.
How I Became a Deist
by Joe D. Jones
I was raised a Methodist, and later a Baptist, and was
comfortable within the confines of revealed religions until I became an
adult. Somewhere around age 40 I began to question the edicts of
revealed religion. What about the people who died before Christ? What
about all the non-Christians in the world? It just didn’t make sense
that all these good folks would be condemned.
Then I began to study scripture in earnest. I realized
that God is portrayed in many different ways between the testaments. How
could a loving God require that Old Testament heroes kill all the women,
children and donkeys in furtherance of God’s will? It just didn’t add
up.
It was very difficult for me to mentally challenge
everything that I had been taught here in the Bible belt about religion.
Nonetheless, I knew that I believed in God and maybe that was enough. I
was impressed that the early American heroes like Jefferson and Lincoln
were not church members, yet proclaimed a reverence for God in all their
work.
Finally, within the last year or so, I crossed the bar
and realized that I couldn’t intellectually buy-in to any of the
revealed religions.
I was glad to find this organization that seemed to
legitimize what I had thought personally for a number of years.
The toughest realization for me was that Deism was not
synonymous with atheism. Now, having crossed that bridge, I am happy and
look for God’s will in everything unhampered by synthetic beliefs of
organized religion.
Thanks for all that you do.
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Latest News of Interest to Deists
A judge drops charges against a woman who withheld
food and water from her son during an exorcism to the point that the
boy had to be treated in a hospital for dehydration!!
The article makes clear the judge based his decision, not on the rule of law, but on the prevailing superstitions in Gwinnett County, Georgia! The fact that in 2009 people still really believe in devils and demons demonstrates clearly the NEED FOR DEISM AND GOD-GIVEN REASON!
The article makes clear the judge based his decision, not on the rule of law, but on the prevailing superstitions in Gwinnett County, Georgia! The fact that in 2009 people still really believe in devils and demons demonstrates clearly the NEED FOR DEISM AND GOD-GIVEN REASON!
Obama is making the mixing of church and state
worse than ever before.
Obama supporters forget that when all is said and done, Obama is just another politician. This article shows he's proving that he is nothing but a politician by doing more than any other president to mix religion and government, especially through giving tax-dollars to religious organizations.
Obama supporters forget that when all is said and done, Obama is just another politician. This article shows he's proving that he is nothing but a politician by doing more than any other president to mix religion and government, especially through giving tax-dollars to religious organizations.