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Paine was careful to contrast the tortuous twists of theology with the pure clarity of deism.
As a thinker he advanced from theological liberalism to deism, then pantheism and possibly to atheism.
I would argue that an interventionist view of God is much closer to deism than my view.
As I stated previously, in 18th century deism there were two keys to distinguishing between deism and theism in its various forms.
Originating late in 1796, this movement of intellectual, republican deism prospered in towns where dechristianization had been popular.
Far from being based in a biblical vision, the case for intelligent design seems to lead at best to a kind of deism.
Put into practice, her ceremonial deism will cease to be either ceremonial or deistic.
And since he asserts that atheism equals nihilism, and deism equals atheism lite, then I must really be a nihilist.
He reacts against the heresy of deism, the belief that God wound up the universe in the beginning but lets it run without intervention.
They see economics as a product of Enlightenment rationalism, along with deism, atheism, the chaos of the French Revolution and other un-Christian aspects of the modern age.
I've long held a similar belief, namely that modern science would lead to a re-emergence of an old religious idea, a blend of naturalism and deism.
How do you bring people to understand another system that isn't based on deism or the idea of a god?
In addition, what we now know of quantum mechanics renders deism inadequate theology because the universe doesn't unfold in a rigorously deterministic manner.
Indeed, just last week, a cluster of polls showed that deism is on the upswing in America.
To suppose this would be a deism much more fundamental and fundamentalist than all the creativist religions that have existed.
In terms of religion, Napoleon bordered between deism and atheism.
Hobbes's idea of a natural religion can fairly be described as deist, and his blend of deism and civil religion was to prove prophetic of much Enlightenment thinking.
The poem Warburton had vindicated a quarter of a century earlier from charges of deism by a Swiss professor had now been travestied along with his own commentary.
As a result, no religious acknowledgment could claim to be an instance of ceremonial deism if it explicitly favored one particular religious belief system over another.
However, Hardy's religious life seems to have mixed agnosticism, deism, and spiritism.
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Between deism and secularization the connection was reasonable.
Rustow traced this viewpoint to deism and beyond it to a mystical pre-Socratic Greek belief in a harmonious universe.
With such a persuasion, deism would be a more consistent creed.
The xvii and xviii centuries saw the rise and progress of deism.
He made loud professions of deism, and of devotion to Paine.
How different is this to the pure and simple profession of deism!
This is what deism forgets, with its habits of intemperate affirmation.
He was also younger brother of Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury, an inveterate duellist and the father of English Deism.
If man has not a free will, then the Machiavellians are justified, as are Calvinism, Rationalism, Deism, Capitalism, and Communism.
Thus any absolutism the state might impose on the clergy is no different from the absolute truth of the Deism Mendelssohn already assumes.
Yet his Deism had been the legacy of his freethinking Jesuit teachers at his elite Parisian lycee, not of his fellow philosophes.
But the deist does not consider this as a reason for rejecting Deism.
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