ABSTRACT
There have been several schools of deism, but its dominant emphasis is its acceptance of the impersonal attributes of God expressed in theism omnipotence, omniscience and so on; but it stops short of attributing to God personal feelings like love, mercy, or compassion. Apologists for the theistic view of God have suggested all manner of reasons to straighten out this apparent anomaly: humanity has brought evil on itself by its own free choices, evil forces are constantly at work seeking to undermine God's will, suffering is a test of character, and so on. Although, there are certain connecting links between dualism as expressed by Plato and theism as expressed in at least two of the major theistic religions, there are significant differences. In fact, belief in God is more likely to occur when there is no belief in the immortality of the soul.
