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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] [QUOTE] we have Intolerant Atheists. [/QUOTE] No we don't. I repeatedly tell you people I'm a Deist, but per Standard Operating Procedure, you never listen. Nor am I intolerant. Respecting someone else's beliefs means respecting their right to HAVE those beliefs, not respecting the validity of the beliefs themselves. Young-Earth Creationists, Flat-Earthers, Gene Ray, and Joe who comes into the library and thinks my name is Dave, all have the right to believe those things. They are still all wrong, however. I leave them alone and generally do not tell them they are stupid to their faces (even when they do not do the same to me). I tolerate them. (Mostly because it would inconvenience me more to do anything else about them.) If you take this 'new' definition of 'tolerance' and apply it to anything besides religion, it falls apart imediately. Therefore it is not valid... unless you are so foolish as to be willing to 'accept as valid' some paranoid's 'belief' that you've been possessed by braineating aliens and must be destroyed to protect humanity. [QUOTE]"...Deism and any others which do not require the active presence of a Deity..." Erm... Deism certainly does require a deity, by definition. [/QUOTE] ACTIVE PRESENCE. Read it again. The basic foundation of Deism is that while a God-being may have set the universe in motion, it is not currently involved in its day-to-day workings, has left no text or rules to follow, does not answer prayers or perform miracles, and is in no way involved with your life. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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