As a committed Deist, this is not how I think, rather, a hypothetical

[Chasstev365]

Is Donald Trump God's punishment for all the greed and evil people in the world?

[multigraincracker]

1. I'm as Secular as one can be.

I see the world as totally random. There is nothing that can influence how that random deck is shuffled. No hope, prayer or wish can influence how it is shuffled. The only power I have is in how I play the hand I get.

[Chasstev365]

2. I share your world view

I once stunned an evangelical Christian I know when he gave thanks to God for something laughable. I said, "so God helped you find your car keys, but didn't stop the Holocaust?"

I guess if God were vengeful, I can't think of a better punishment than Donald Trump.

[anciano]

3. Agree...

I no longer believe in the concept of an anthropomorphic deity, but rather view us mortals as one with Nature, just as waves are to the ocean. Life is unpredictable and our experiences are simply the random acts of Nature.

[Easterncedar]

4. Not a deist, but I believe in good and evil

Evil is winning

[Wuddles440]

5. Sadly, I too share that sentiment.

[Easterncedar]

6. But we good people must keep fighting

Giving up gives evil more power.

Off to the anti war protest

[Nigrum Cattus]

7. that is not a deist thought

A deist would believe in any "god" intervention
Deism is the philosophical position and rationalistic theology that rejects prophecies, revelations, and religious texts as legitimate or reliable sources of divine knowledge, and instead asserts that empirical reason and observation of the natural world are exclusively logical, reliable, and sufficient to determine the existence of a Supreme Being as the creator of the universe. Unlike classical theism, Deism is the belief in the existence of a creator God who simply does not intervene anymore after creating the universe, solely based on rational thought and without any reliance on revealed religions or religious