I must say, that your last post actually got me rethinking some of my premises, but then thanks to your pointing out I remembered a speech that I heard from...
... my ... I will equally confess that it was this same discussion we are having in which I discovered I can not think of a reason to forbid plural marriage...
Tevis: I will admit that part of it is because of the militism of the gay and lesbian lobby. I fail to understand how so many people can be blinded by these...
enlightenm ent2 Averroes you are no hamurabi lawgiver if anything you are an egotical brat. How can you people write this garbage and why do people have to...
Were Dr. Franklin alive today, I'd suspect he wrote these words in descripton of Andrew Zito: ``Here comes the orator, with his flood of words, and his drop of...
Rationality requires not only the shedding of dogma but equally as importantly IT REQUIRES THE RECOGNITION OF THE first principle of naievety: we do not know...
enlightenm ent Rationality and dogma are completely unrelated and, SAFELY WE CAN ASSUME YOU MOSTLY "do not know for sure and never will' about yourself and...
Russell: Just one interjection here, if I may... I said "my inclination", not "my argument". In other words, I am not saying "these groups hate our foreign...
enlightenm ent "Russell W. Behne" <russ@...> wrote: "Were Dr. Franklin alive today, I'd suspect he wrote these words in descripton of Andrew Zito:" ``Here...
... I see. My point was actually that that Zito character fails to even attempt to use even the slightest modicum of logic, responding with emotional...
FOR MANY YEARS THIS GROUP (the Deism@yahoogroups.com affiliated with the World Union of Deists) HAS SHOWN THE BYLINE: "Deism: A belief in God based on reason...
Russell: As to our foreign policy, it is seriously flawed, and certainly does breed anti-American sentiment. Every instance of anti-Americanism was the result...
enlightenm ent What is the purpose that the sane should attempt to use reason and logic with the insane such as your self, when even mad men such as your self...
Hello Everyone, Sorry for the delay in my posting. I have been reading everyones' posts about prayer with great interest. I am still forming my belief system...
"Mainstream Deism" Suitable for Upper Class Snobs by Andrew Zito (or more work to be proof read by minions of darkness hidden amongst Secular Humanism, Deism,...
Lisa: I know nothing of quantum physics except what I saw in the movie "What the Bleep Do We Know?" but I suspect that the answer to the prayer issue may lie...
Hey cut this infighting out Deists have different ideas just like everyone else. There is a range from wrong to right. Einstein was very wrong about economics...
Deist Dogma is True!! Dogma is religious content, without any content we have nothing at all. Deists have the best Dogma of all. Our Dogma is based on ...
I beleive that dogma is generally reffered to as an orthodox creed accepted without proof. On the otherhand what you labell as Deist dogma, is better called as...
Hello all! I've long considered myself a deist, but only recently have I become interested in some of the philosophical writings. I've checked out Paine's The...
Deiologist; IMO you have spoken truth! Also I may add that examples of this trend shows in the many separate break-away groups of protestants. By the way...
Yes! you have chosen the better part. The escapees from organized religion need the other as well. Elsie Sir_Launcelot_du_Lake <sorthel@...> wrote: ...
Who said we complained? we merely stated facts regarding the so called "world union of deists" and the regular users of the Yahoo egroup "Deism" and its errors...
I hate to ban anyone from the group, but if you don't start making sense in your postings you're going to force me to ban you. Also under your other email...
Hello Aaron, and welcome! Tom Paine's The Age of Reason is really an outstanding book! You should read the entire book and realize how foolish the Bible really...
Hi Elsie. I think the entire book by Tom Paine, The Age of Reason, is important. When I was a die-hard Christian, both parts of the Age of Reason helped me...
Bob; I had been shedding Organized Religion for a long time, when I came upon your web site. I think I copied everything that was available on your page. and...
Greetings fellow Deists! My name is Theano and I love deism.com-- the articles and the thinking contained therein! As often as possible, I plan to submit...
