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Comment author: Dagon 16 March 2016 03:50:13PM *  0 points [-]

My disagreement isn't that it's implausible for such an entity to exist, but that it's extremely implausible for it to matter in any decision or experience I anticipate. The chain of unsupported leaps from "I perceive all this stuff and I don't know why" to "some powerful entitiy created it all, and I understand their desires and want to behave in ways that please or manipulate them" is more than I can follow.

Comment author: Lumifer 16 March 2016 04:06:43PM 0 points [-]

and I understand their desires and want to behave in ways that please or manipulate them

The OP is talking about deism.

Comment author: Dagon 17 March 2016 05:33:09AM 0 points [-]

Right. And regardless of what's written about the rest of the cluster of religious belief regarding souls, creator-pleasing morality, etc., I have yet to actually meet anyone who assigns a high probability of a conscious thinking Creator without also bringing the rest of it in.

Comment author: Lumifer 17 March 2016 02:57:51PM 1 point [-]

I have yet to actually meet anyone...

Have you met anyone who self-identifies as a deist?

Comment author: Brillyant 16 March 2016 03:54:43PM 0 points [-]

The chain of unsupported leaps from "I perceive all this stuff and I don't know why" to "some powerful entitiy created it all, and I understand their desires and want to behave in ways that please or manipulate them" is more than I can follow.

Why is the bold necessary, or necessarily relevant? Are you referencing revealed religion?

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