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.
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.
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?
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.
The OP is talking about deism.
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.
Have you met anyone who self-identifies as a deist?
Why is the bold necessary, or necessarily relevant? Are you referencing revealed religion?