I'm shutting down Google+ for the night and quite possibly for the weekend. Why? This stupid #gifwars thing people are so proud of. This Adam Black guy said he doesn't like gifs and now everyone is mass trolling him. Having been mass trolled like this I can relate to him easily enough. Have an opinion and the collective might of Google+'s lower class denizens jump on a bandwagon. I just saw a post where someone wanted to jump on board and had to get clarification she was tagging the proper Adam Black. She wasn't even connected to him ! Nor was she a part of the original discussion. She just wanted to follow the herd. When I called her out of it she claimed, "one gif doesn't make a troll." Perhaps not, but she's contributing to a larger troll effort. One straw doesn't break the camel's back, but thousands will. So, tonight, Google+ disgusts me. It probably will tomorrow as well. And possibly Sunday. I gave up Google+ for two months this spring
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There's been a lot of rewriting of what deism really is over the last decade so that Libertarians like Ron Paul can claim it as their own without crawling too far away from the Republican Party. (Much like Libertarianism itself has been rewritten.)
In my book, if you want to know Deism get to know Voltaire.
I've been on the fence of atheism and deism since the early-to-mid-90's. Trust me here, I know what I'm talking about.
Plus one on the nifty and fairly thorough chart though.
ETA: The tag-line that accompanied real Deism back in the day was: "The Scientists Religion". Thus the obvious need for a modern rewrite of its definition and roots.