Religious Deism blog is back

Sorry about the hiatus with regards to the RD blog posts.  However, we had two important internal issues related to a form and a substance issue that we felt that we needed to discuss and resolve before continuing forward. 

1. Form – During this past year, we came to realize that one of the reasons why we received little in the way of interaction or feedback on blog articles was because of our limited communication approaches.  As a result, we decided to set up our first Facebook page and group, hoping that this social network move will help with this issue and allow us to better match up with communication and social network realities of today.  Please check out these Facebook sites at the following addresses, although their content is still somewhat limited, and communicate with us or ask to join us:

https://www.facebook.com/Religious-Deism-103902148348693

https://www.facebook.com/Religious-Deism-103902148348693/groups/2. 2.

2. Substance – In the past, we tried to create a website and market ourselves as being a theology in between Christianity and atheism, hoping to appeal to both agnostics looking for something more hope-based and disillusioned Christians looking for a more reason-based, “contradictionlessness” theology.   However, we now realize that while some agnostics might come to see Religious Deism (RD) as a viable option, they will likely find other non-religious and secular deist theologies to be to their liking.  We have come to realize that the RD target audience is first and foremost disillusioned Christians and other disillusioned people with religious backgrounds who have some frustration or perhaps disdain for the beliefs of their current or past religious affiliation but who don’t necessarily want to discard a commitment to religion.  In this context, the goal of RD is to offer a reason-based theological option that serves as a safety net of sorts, stopping these people from religious backgrounds falling completely past all “religious” options and somewhat unwittingly into the hands of agnosticism or even atheism.     

RD establishes, and we believe that most disillusioned Christians accept and understand, that calling all religion bad or wrong or misguided is like throwing out the baby with the bathwater.  And in fact, without holding any real disdain for Christianity, RD believes that Christianity has given religion a bad name and a false character that has led far too many Christians to believe that deism is not or cannot be religious.  Likewise, atheists and some agnostics wrongly characterize deism or any belief in God as having to be revealed in nature like some kind of poor form of Christianity. 

With this in mind, RD promotes and insists that not all religion is “revealed religion”.  What do we mean by that?  That while Christianity, Judaism and Islam are based on God’s revealed word through supposedly divine books and other sources, religions and theologies can and do exist without any reliance on divinely revealed sources and with a commitment to reason-based beliefs and a search for “contradictionlessness” about God, the afterlife, and humanity. 

We hope that this new focus and our new marketing and communication approaches and efforts will better resonate with our newly clarified target audience and that we hear back from you about the website, the new focus or our renewed, weekly blog articles, either here on the website or in one of our Facebook options.