Ever since 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in the custody of the Iranian morality police on September 22, 2022 (Mahsa was arrested for not wearing her hijab/head covering correctly), the Iranian people have held public demonstrations across Iran in protest of Mahsa's death and to end misogyny. The Iranian government claims Mahsa died of a heart attack, while prisoners who were with her claim she died from being beaten by the religious morality police.
The Islamic Iranian government has so far executed two of the thousands of demonstrators. Mohsen Shekari was executed for allegedly attacking a member of the security forces with a knife. Majid Reza Rahnavard was hanged for allegedly killing two members of the security forces and wounding four others. Human rights groups, including Amnesty International, report that the men executed were tortured into confessing. It is also reported that there are 221 other people who have received the death penalty who were demonstrating against Mahsa's death and Iran's misogyny. (Like all of the Abrahamic man-made "revealed" religions, Islam is strongly misogynistic. However, as far as I know, Islam is the only one that commands violence against women as is seen in the Quran at 4:34.) The executions are making more headlines due to the fact that one of the demonstrators due to be executed is internationally acclaimed soccer player Amir Reza Nasr Azadani.
The two demonstrators who have already been executed, as well as Azadani and presumably all those who have been sentenced to death, have been charged with "waging war against God." The Islamic Republic of Iran, by claiming the protesters are "waging war against God", makes it very clear why it is so important not to confuse God with religion.
All of the Abrahamic man-made "revealed" religions of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Baha'i and Mormonism, claim they are God's revelation to humanity, when, in reality, none of them are. When religions and their clergy and followers are dripping with hubris and delusion to the point of believing and claiming their man-made "holy" books are actually the Word of God, only bad things can come of it. The current deadly situation in Iran is an example of this.
Deism, once a large enough number of people are reached with Deism, can put an end to the harm the "revealed" religions are causing. This is because pure and beautifully simple Deism makes it very clear that The Supreme Intelligence/God and religion are two very different things. It helps people to appreciate and use their innate God-given reason that then empowers people to realize that none of the alleged "holy" books are the Word of God. Instead of wasting their time and lives trying to make sense of the nonsense in the "holy" books, they realize the true Word of God is the Creation and Universe we are all a part of. They take to heart the realization that God gave us reason, not religion (which is the title of a Deism book). In The Age of Reason Thomas Paine did a wonderful job of making this important point when he wrote:
I believe it is only in the CREATION that all our ideas and conceptions of a Word of God can unite. The Creation speaks a universal language, independently of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they may be. It is an ever existing original, which every man can read. It cannot be forged; it cannot be counterfeited; it cannot be lost; it cannot be altered; it cannot be suppressed. It does not depend upon the will of man whether it shall be published or not; it publishes itself from one end of the earth to the other. It preaches to all nations and to all worlds; and this Word of God reveals to man all that is necessary for man to know of God.
