The farmer scratches his head and says, 'I guess that's right. I'm a strong atheist. Our lives are condemned to failure and death . It's the opposite of rationality. The ones that are incapable of being winners and successful in the real world try to escape reality and enter a universe where their objectives and goals are fulfilled with religion and other myths.
Deism can indeed help people.
What I am criticizing is the weak mind of the persons who need this help to gain a better attitude and ethics. I'm a big critic of religion, but I'm mainly a critic of the religious institutions and not of the religious principles themselves. Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and many other religions, have excellent wise and balanced teachings. Suffering is caused by ignorance and attachment. At the Human Germline Genetic Engineering conference at UCLA on 20 Mar 1998.