VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Dinah|DATE|1388490879|CONTENT|Let me assume for a moment that some kind of God, higher power, supreme being, call it what you will, exists.  The problem confronting believers like Welby is the silence of this entity.  All he can know about it is based upon what other human beings have said or written.  How can he possibly work out which is genuine and which the result of delusion, indoctrination, misunderstanding or wishful thinking?  Despite the forests of bibles, korans, apologetics and religious treatises that exist, how is it possible to know whether a god is a ‘god of justice’ or a god of anything?  As this god refuses to speak for itself, whatever the reason, then it has to boil down to making assumptions on its behalf - a leap of faith – or just assuming without question that one particular set of beliefs (usually the one  the believer’s tribe/culture/parents holds) is correct while others are not.

Given the complete lack of evidence, it seems to me then that if someone insists on having a religious belief, then the only honest one must be some kind of Deism, ie belief in the existence of a supreme being, but not in a revealed religion or in a god which cares about or intervenes in a human affairs.  To claim anything more is being dishonest.  All the prayers, chanting, fulminations of priests, religious rituals, rites, ceremonies, dietary restrictions, prohibitions and religious texts in the world make absolutely no difference to this.
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