A Panendeist's Explaination of Why Evil Exists

To understand why bad things happen, we must first imagine a world without them. What Would Life Look Like Without Evil? To understand why evil happens, I think we must first ask ourselves, what would the world look like if it was absolutely perfect? If you just scratch the top of that though experiment, you'll probably get some very positive imagery, maybe some picture of you running through a meadow under a perfectly blue sky, but,...

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Understanding Deism, Pantheism, & Panendeism

This article is meant to be a quick, at a glance guide to understanding Supernatural Theism, Pantheism, and Deism and how they each define God differently. In Deism God is transcendent, but God is not present materially. God is completely apart from us and creation itself. In Pantheism and Pandeism, God is universally manifest in and as everything. In this world view, God is not transcendent because God is the manifestation of all reality. Therefore, in Pantheism, we are Gods. In Panentheism and Panendeism, God is both transcendent of material...

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9 Things Every Deist Should Know

While there are no "official" tenets of Deism, many of the following "unofficial" tenets might be the best way to introduce generally accepted beliefs within Deism. The unofficial tenets of Deism are: 1. Belief in God based on Reason, Experience and Nature (nature of the universe) rather than on the basis of pure faith, holy texts and divine revelation. Essentially, through the use of Reason, God’s existence is revealed by the observation of...

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Gaining Deeper Understanding of Deism

Below are a list of articles on this website related Deism and similar subjects. In my view the term is often abused and very vague, often representing hostility towards revealed religions such as Judaism and Christianity. I invite the reader to explore the many views of Deism and draw their own conclusion pro or con. I also encourage the reader to explore the many facets of evolution at my Evolution Versus Creationism Archive. As Ben Franklin noted in a letter to Ezra Stiles in 1790 (Salisbury, Dorothy Cleaveland. "Religion: As the Leaders...

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Deism Defined

Religious outlook, which assumed that God existed but having once created a perfect universe, no longer took an active interest in it. It is not a specific religion. God was thought of as a divine clock-maker. Deists do not believe in prophets or in the need for worship. If God does not actively participate in life on earth then there is no need for prophets to exist nor would God care if people worship him or not. In addition, there is no need for miracles or spiritual interventions as their is no need for corrections in God's creation. Miracles...

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Understanding Deism

Most people have either never heard of Deism or consider it to be of historical interest only. Its roots can be traced to ancient Greece and it flourished for a while in the eighteenth century in Britain and America, a product of the Enlightenment. Many of America’s founding fathers – Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, James Madison and the British radical Thomas Paine – were Deists. Deism was regarded by those who espoused it, to be a personal philosophy. Deists were not proselytizers striving to win converts...

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