Deist: A Natural Religion

The monotheistic religion that the people of Eert practice is Leafly. They believe in the Tree God, Branchy. Branchy is an almighty god that usually takes form of a tree but can also look over the civilization of Eert as a whole. Leafly is a part of the civilization because the people want to revolve their lives around pleasing Branchy so they can have a good life and afterlife.

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Deists were also separated from Theists because in their worldview, there were no miracles or spontaneous gestures from God. As Sire puts it, “For he is not interested in it,” meaning that God created the cosmos, but he left it to humanity. (2009) The separation in worldviews brings up the separation within Deism, itself. One way that Deism is very different from Theism is that it is not a specific view; there are different types of Deists. While most Deists believe along a similar line, they do differ with one of the worldview questions. Cold Deists do not believe in afterlife, and Warm Deists do. (Sire, 2009)

In the book, The Universe Next Door, by James W. Sire he talks about both theism and deism and explains their similarities and differences through a series of worldview questions. According to Sire, a theistic

Deism is defined as a belief in the existence of a supreme being, a belief that God exists, but does not intervene in the universe. A transition from theism, "Deism developed, some say, as an attempt to bring unity out of a chaos of theological and philosophical discussion" (Sire 2009 pg:47).

Popular deism – belief in a being, force, or intelligence. Cold deism God is simply abstract force bringing world into existence. Warm deism God is clearly personal and even friendly.

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Xelus is worshipped as the main God because he is the one who brought everything into being. However, since Xelus combusted and made up everything, Xelics (worshippers of Xelus) believe that everything has some divine power because Xelus literally in everyone and everything. This religion does not necessarily worship everything though. They believe that life is the most holy aspect of Xelus, not the other forms that came from him such as rocks. This belief leads to the value of nature and other human beings. Xelics believe that we must do everything in our power to try to preserve the Earth and protect the living creatures. The connection to nature also influences Xelics to go out to a place where nature hasn’t been disturbed every week. Simply

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Thomas Paine argued that there is happiness in Deism, when one rightly understood it concept. What makes Deism stood out from the rest of world religion, Is that Deist doesn’t need tricks to show miracles to confirm faith. He claimed that Deism brings happiness to it followers; unlike other religious believe systems where they restrain from reasoning and if the reasoning makes sense they will dispute against it. A man or a woman who able to think at all must restrain his/her own reason in order to force themselves into believe the teaching of that religion without questioning. Deist believes that the structure of the universe and everything we witness in the system of the creation of the world are far more convincing than any text or

Spirituality and religion hold different values and truths depending on your personal beliefs. Being religious is a belief or practice that contains certain values one should follow. When looking deeper into religion you can find spirituality which is the part of religion that effects our spirit and soul, it is not tangible. “The Sacred within” is spirituality and pertains to God dwelling inside of our heart and soul. When looking at “the sacred within” there are certain senses that we can tap into so, we may obtain that sort of spirituality. Through solitude, silence, imagination, and nature, we can have a better sense of spirituality.

Perennial philosophy is the philosophically religious perspective in which all religions derived from a singular religion. Although many religion have many different ideologies, achieving the same end result is prevalent in all religions.

The terms deism and theism were used interchangeably. The custom has been to use the words in a mutually exclusive sense. A number of quite divergent theological and philosophical positions are now indicated by the term deism. They resemble one another in that all reject one or more of the traditional Christian theses concerning the relationship that exits between God and universe. Deism is a theological position which accepted the supreme being as the source of finite existence, but denied the supernatural element in Christianity, as well as rejecting Christian revelation as the only way to salvation.

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The evaluation of functions and dysfunctions depends upon one’s criteria of what is positive and negative. Therefore, there are often conflicting assessments of the relative positive or negative effects of religion. In a way, functionalism stresses social stability and underemphasizing conflict and change, functionalists often believe that societies are quite well-integrated systems (Roberts, 1990). Structural-functionalists have frequently assessed social functions as being most essential, while considering individual dysfunctions as necessary ills. Functionalists have also been concerned mainly in the factors influencing and influenced by belief.