| And so you may be thrown back on a so-called deist God, a God who simply started the ball rolling billions of years ago. |
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| Intolerant of dissent, he wrote several pamphlets replying robustly to vindications of separatism by the Presbyterian Owen and the deist Dodwell. |
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| 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. |
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| Should a teacher who is a freethinker or a deist, as were many of the country's earliest patriots, be forced to lie to her students by being required to lead them in the oath? |
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| He probably knows, but does not mention, that the writer was the most deist of all the founders, Jefferson. |
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| Indeed he did, but he used it in connection with a deist theology that, however thin, gave him reason to think of humanity as having a value derived from a creator. |
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| In 1779, Thomas Jefferson, a deist, proposed disestablishing the Episcopal church in Virginia. |
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| In addition, Owen, a deist, criticised organised religion, including the Church of England, and developed a belief system of his own. |
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| Hence it follows that every theist and every deist is a creationist except for those who accept that morality is a human phenomenon which is innate to human beings in general, including atheists. |
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| In this sense, every theist and every deist is a creationist. |
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| The Declaration of Independence is, at most, a deist document. |
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| There are also Unitarian Universalist, Baha'i, Sikh, Jain, Shinto, Confucian, Taoist, Druid, Native American, Wiccan, humanist and deist communities. |
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| Despite being raised by religious parents, he later on became a deist. |
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| The god they present is neither the impassive god of the Oriental nor the nonhistorical god of the Deist. |
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| The first two published instalments of the manuscript contained material which was drawn from Deist criticisms, though worked out with great thoroughness. |
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| Instead, the Deist relies solely on personal reason to guide his creed, which was eminently agreeable to many thinkers of the time. |
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