How I Broke Free from Various Belief Systems and Found Myself Agnostic
Posted by Joemar | Filed under Philosophy
When we were born, we were automatically trapped within a culture with a certain belief system. This shapes how we understand all things around us. In most cases, it also dictates how we should behave. It pervades our whole personality so much that when it is challenged and we realize that something is wrong about [...]
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Dr. Jose Rizal: The foremost Filipino deist
Posted by Joemar | Filed under History, Philosophy
There are so many things that ordinary Filipinos do not know about their national hero. Even if his two novels (Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo) is being studied in high school and his life and works in college as part of the curriculum, many things have been left out of importance. Many details in the novels have been omitted and some aspects of Rizal
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You might be a deist without knowing it
Posted by Joemar | Filed under Philosophy
A large portion of the population of established religions today are nominal members, which means that they are only members by name. Most of them still attend worship/church services but some never go to church at all. Most of these nominal members believe in the essential doctrines of their religion specially those that seem to be right in their judgment. But, when the teachings of their religion go against their common sense and rational thinking, they reject them.
In my observation, many Catholics in the Philippines (I can only speak of my fatherland), especially those who are highly educated, are of this type. They choose which doctrines to believe and which doctrines to reject; a reason why they are referred to by Catholic authorities as “cafeteria-style” Catholics. I presume that nominal members of other religious groups do the same. And also those nominal members of many religions around the world do the same.
Tags: deism
What is deism?
Posted by Joemar | Filed under Philosophy
The pure and simple belief in God — the Uncaused Cause and Designer of all things — without the added baggage of unreasonable and unsubstantial claims of special revelations (i.e. ancient sacred books) is what defines deism. A deist
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