Deist devotion to deterministic ideologies is folly...

[richardhutnik]

Kasz216 said:

richardhutnik said:

Deist devotion is what I was using to describe how a deist would view things.  Ok, maybe not all deist, but the jist of how deism works.  Such an individual believes the system is now set, there is nothing hands on by God, but the system will work automatically forward and continue to improve, because it was designed as such by the master watchmaker.  It is a detached reverence towards things, that doesn't feel that personal action is needed or matters, because the ideology is marching on to some sort of ideal state.  

I guess that depends on your meaning of deist.  You mean in the case of "Doesn't believe in a specific religion but believes there was a god?"

Either way such a viewpoint seems silly considering that people are part of the universe... therefore there actions would be included, making nonaction silly.

Deism believes in the watchmaker God, where the God did everything at the start and is no longer involved.  Someone who holds a belief in a deterministic ideology would hold that their ideology is going to triumph in the end, and what they do doesn't really matter, or is part of what will make their ideology win in the end.  It does seem silly, but for the person who subscribes to such, it seems natural.  Statistically though, what one person does is usually irrelevant anyhow.