Who else on Spill is a deist?

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Permalink Reply by Cheshire Cat on October 19, 2009 at 3:25am

If God created a universe so perfect, why are humans suffering?

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Permalink Reply by Berko on October 19, 2009 at 3:36am

maybe, not so perfect. another fail for science. next they'll be say'n bigfoot ain't real. When will they learn!!!

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Permalink Reply by Kizmania on October 19, 2009 at 3:51am

Maybe suffering is necessary

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Permalink Reply by Lab Rat on October 19, 2009 at 3:58am

Without suffering and discomfort there would be no drive for improvement. No quest for knowledge.

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Permalink Reply by Ms. B™ on October 19, 2009 at 5:38pm

That's discouraged in Christianity. Angels do it and they're cast out of Heaven. And I'm sure we've all heard about how followers call themselves "sheep."

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Permalink Reply by Berko on October 19, 2009 at 5:48pm

They don't mean it positively though. It's more like a statement about how easily people follow what seems most reasonable or popular. Pretty much what what southpark says about people.
Way I see it, the only difference between southpark and the Bible, is southpark get's censored.

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Permalink Reply by thepropayne on October 20, 2009 at 12:57pm

and the bible has a steady supply of people who tune in once a week

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Permalink Reply by Chig Champa on October 19, 2009 at 6:18pm

"Even our pleasures are not immune from suffering.
They give us happiness while they last, but they do not last forever; eventually they must pass away, and when they go the loss leaves us feeling deprived.
Our lives, for the most part, are strung out between the thirst for pleasure and the fear of pain.
We pass our days running after the one and running from the other, seldom enjoying the peace of contentment; real satisfaction seems somehow always out of reach, just beyond the next horizon.
Then in the end we have to die: to give up the identity we spent our whole life building, to leave behind everything and everyone we love."

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Permalink Reply by T.R. on October 21, 2009 at 1:22am

The notion of joy wouldn't exist without the one of suffering to contrast it, just like good and evil, war and peace etc.
A world without suffering would be a world without joy, just because you wouldn't have anything to compare the joy with, making it meaningless.

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Permalink Reply by Kizmania on October 19, 2009 at 3:54am

Deism is a very interesting concept, but I don't know why you would try and pigeon hole the all powerful creator of everything and say it couldn't interfere with its creation.

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Permalink Reply by Latter Day Heretic on October 19, 2009 at 6:54am

thats is not what he is saying kiz

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Permalink Reply by Kizmania on October 19, 2009 at 5:24pm

the universe was created by God in a way to perfect he never has to interfere

Well its pretty damn close... he never said God can't interfere he more, or less said he doesn't need to... ok ill buy that

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