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Welcome To The Positive Deism Discussion
Group
Deism is a belief
in God based on reason and nature. If you're not familiar with
Deism, we'd like to suggest that you click on the 'Deist Document'
link from the drop down menu above to learn more about it.
In addition, you
might want to read about....
Thomas
Paine's view of Deism
or 'The Deist
Primer'
or 'Deism in a
Nutshell'
or 'A Deist Epistle'
Also be sure to
join in our discussions at our Forum (Make sure you register in
order to be able to view all the topics!).
NEW! We now have a paperback version of 'Modern
Age of Reason' available for purchase at our new Positive Deism
Store HERE.
From the back cover:
"Thomas Paine, who was one of the founding fathers of the United States
of America, held to a religious philosophy called "Deism". "Age of Reason"
was the book he wrote to share his reason-based theological beliefs with
the world. The book was written in the 18th century, so we have paraphrased
Mr. Paine's classic work into modern English in order to make it more
accessible to modern-day readers."
Purchase of this paperback, and other items in the store, will help
support the Positive Deism website.
Positive Deism is
associated with a number of other Deist sites for the purpose of
communicating with each other, and helping each other promote Deism
into the 21st Century. Please use our 'Deist Alliance Webring' nav
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So what is
Positive Deism? Positive Deism is simply keeping our focus on what
Deism is instead of focusing on what Deism
isn't Click HERE to read an excellent essay that describes
this principle. 
Traditionally,
Deism has tended to spend much of its time being anti-Christian
(negative). However, in this group, we want to confine our focus to
Deism. We are most concerned with everything that is Deistic in
nature, and would like to advance our knowledge and experience of it
(positive).
Some of our
members like the concept behind our discussion group so much that
they want to adopt Positive Deism as a personal philosophy or
theology on its own. Read about that here.
This group is for
Deists who are looking for a place to share their views and hear the
views of fellow Deists without having to be involved in endless
arguments with non-Deists.
Non-Deists are
welcome to join, as long as they refrain from belittling our beliefs
by arguing with us over the most basic tenets of Deism. This is the
wrong place for that. There are other groups that are more
appropriate for those types of debates.
Please see our posting policy.
We hope that you
will find the Positive Deism discussion groups an enjoyable place to
be, and a place you can call 'home' on the Net. Again, Welcome to
Positive Deism.
Your Fellow
Deist,
Steve
Dowell |