can anyone enlighten me about the specific points of deism? all i know is that it does not deny the divinity of jesus christ but it DOES believe in a god, a god that created this world and has predetermined everything. thanks

I consider myself a Catholic deist (don't ask, I might make a thread explaining this later), but what deism means to me is that there is a God who created the basic fundamental necessities for the Universe. For example, the natural laws of physics and quarks would have been made by God.

i always thought something like that but i could never find the religions name, i guess i found it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deism

That goes into detail.

I'm a Deist. I don't believe in Jesus' divinity. I believe God is not the traditional God, but an entity. Like a surge of energy that was able to create our scope of existence. The creation was done in such a way that it enabled our laws of Physics. Then the energy moves on.

Deism = To believe God came, created, and left.

I just read the Wiki on it. I also agree with an "afterlife." Not a bunch of angels and souls in the clouds. I believe that once we die, we transcend our current perception of our 4-d lives (3 dimensional directions, 1 dimension in time) and acquire the perception to see all 4 dimensions. We see everything at all instances of time. We will be in the scope of existence that the surge of energy lives in, basically.

I consider myself a Catholic deist (don't ask, I might make a thread explaining this later), but what deism means to me is that there is a God who created the basic fundamental necessities for the Universe. For example, the natural laws of physics and quarks would have been made by God.

uhhh, saying god created the laws of the universe doesnt mean your a deist. Every concept of a god includes that.

Being a deist tends to mean you believe there is a god, who created our univerese but 'it' has not interviened in any way since that creation. No jesus. No sign from god being told through any religion. Nothing. Some deist believe in different types of an afterlife. But not heaven and hell. Just spirituall stuff.

To me deism is just a pure "god of the gaps" way of thinking. Take out all bullshit religious stories and your left with, we dont know what started the universe so i'm going to make up an explination.