AntiRules187 Posted:

May I ask what Deism is?

Wiki has a decent article on it.

Deism is a religious and philosophical belief that a supreme natural God exists and created the physical universe, and that religious truths can be arrived at by the application of reason and observation of the natural world. Deists generally reject the notion of supernatural revelation as a basis of truth or religious dogma. These views contrast with the dependence on divine revelation found in many Christian, Islamic and Judaic teachings.

In other words, I believe in God not because someone else told me to believe in Him, but because I saw what I perceive to be evidence of His existence in our world.

I’ve never believed in the whole ‘proof belies faith’ idea of divinity. To me, that simply sounds like a con-man trying to dodge a direct question. I say that you can look for proof of God’s existence, and such proof only strengthens faith, not erodes it.