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higher than the survey shows because the survey uses an outdated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? How Deism Helps a Victim of Child
Abuse
A Light Switched On!
by Rex
I was born in Blanchard, OK. A wide spot in
the road with a population of about 150, who were pimarily
Conservative Baptists. However, my paternal grandmother attended a
Pentecostal Holiness Church in a nearby town of Amber. I was just 5
years old when she took me to my first service at her church. I
tell you, when the preaching reached a fever pitch and the
congregation started wailing and speaking in tongues, with some,
flopping to the floor, and writhing and jerking with eyes rolled
back in their heads...it scared the crap out of me! It was such a
traumatizing experience that I didn't set foot in another church for
years.
My family moved to Oakland, CA to
escape the draught ridden dustbowl Oklahoma had become. A young
woman named Mona, who lived down the block, started a young people's
bible study group in her home and I was invited to join in. I was 7
and my mother's older sister Tillie, lived in a small house next
door to us with her 2 boys, Lonnie and Coy. Coy was 14 and mature
for his age, and was often my babysitter while the adults all
worked. He started sexually molesting me right from the start. He
made me promise not tell anyone and that what we did was a secret.
Everyone loved him for his cute ways and had a witty sense of humor,
so since none of the adults took notice of what he was doing to me,
I simply accepted it as a normal way of life. At bible study, I
learned that Jesus loved the little children and protected them from
harm. I couldn't understand why he wasn't protecting me? I decided
that I must be bad and Jesus didn't like me. Subsequently, my
feeling of self worth and self esteem fell to the gutter. I became
introverted and isolated myself from everyone as best I could. My
little room became my world, and a collection of stuffed animals
became my only friends. School was torture but I managed to survive
by living in a make believe world all my own. The only one who
invaded my world was cousin Coy when he slipped into my room late at
night to perform his act of 'sodomy' on me. This went on for 2
years until aunt Tillie and the boys moved to Washington. Free at
last.
I didn't attend church again until my
teens when several of my friends attended Sunday school at a local
Protestant church. I was invited to attend and reluctantly did so.
I tried to ignore my feeling of discomfort and went through the
motions of weekly services. During ensuing years, I drifted in and
out of many different churches, always with the same detached
feeling. Finally, from age 25 to 55 I rarely, if ever, set foot in
a church. It was while casually surfing the internet one afternoon,
that I happened upon a website on Deism. As I read the contents, my
excitement began to grow with each paragraph. It was as if a light
had switched on in my brain! This is what I had been searching for
all along and I was stoked. I devoured everything I could find on
Deism and the more I read, the more enlightened I became. Since
that day, I have compiled a vast collection of material on Deism
that I study avidly on a daily basis.
Today, I am happy and content,
knowing that I have the truth to rely on and not the destructive
lies that the bible and Christianity evoke. I love Deism.
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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.