I'm looking for a term or word for someone who is certain there was a God, but is no longer around. Maybe God died, went away, or just no longer keeps an eye on us.
I thought agnostic, but that seems to be someone who is unsure if god ever existed.
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Sign up to join this communityI'm looking for a term or word for someone who is certain there was a God, but is no longer around. Maybe God died, went away, or just no longer keeps an eye on us.
I thought agnostic, but that seems to be someone who is unsure if god ever existed.
If someone believes that God went away because God died, you could call this belief theothanatology (and thus perhaps call the person a theothanatist - this concept has been put forward by some philosophers and is explained on this wikipedia page
The word you are looking for is "deist". Essentially, they believe that god created the universe and that's about it, neither interfering in nor caring about human affairs and not required to sustain the universe in operation.