Today is Passover. It's a major and essential holiday in Judaism. It is allegedly a celebration of freedom. It portrays God in a horrific way that is completely rejected by Deism. Passover is a foundational myth of Judaism and a pivotal part of the Exodus myth that claims ancient Egypt held millions of Jews in slavery. As the story goes, God wanted to be the God of the Jews. At Numbers 15:41 the ancient Jewish clergymen who wrote the Hebrew Bible/Christian Old Testament, cl

I chose deism for several reasons. But to explain that properly, I first have to explain how and why I left Islam. One of the earliest influences was my upbringing. I grew up in the USA, although I’m not a U.S. citizen. I returned to my home country when I was around 15, and later, at the age of 20, I started working to support my family during a financially difficult time. I was already living in a dysfunctional home, and all I wanted was to pursue an undergraduate degree, w

After nearly 30 years of searching, questioning, doubting, believing, leaving, and returning to different ideas about God, I finally feel that I have come home. What I have found is not a new religion in the traditional sense, but a certainty — a quiet, grounded conviction in God through Deism. And the relief I feel is almost overwhelming. It is deeply, profoundly freeing. For most of my life, my spiritual journey has been intense and restless. I have explored structured reli

Today, January 29, 2026, is the 289th birthday of Thomas Paine, the most overlooked and often ignored of America's Founders. He is ignored due to his Deism and his untiring work to promote Deism to as many people as possible. Just as he worked and contributed to getting the American Revolution started and seeing it through to its successful end, so he worked and contributed to bringing about a Deism Revolution in Religion. In The Age of Reason he wrote, "Soon after I had pu