| Put into practice, her ceremonial deism will cease to be either ceremonial or deistic. |
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| Some of the many positions on creationism include progressive, deistic, theistic, ex nihilo, and directive creationism. |
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| Theological speculation and deistic tendencies were much discussed and much feared. |
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| Some interviewee responses suggest beliefs closer to pantheism than deistic faiths. |
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| My own learning has taken place at the fertile conjunction of Hinduism and Buddhism, although my deistic inclination firmly locates me in the former tradition. |
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| The deistic idea implies that God creates something in the beginning that then occasionally repairs elements with individual interventions. |
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| I suggest the expression moralistic creationism or deistic creationism to describe the thesis of a supernatural origin of morality. |
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| The worldview of the society around us is deistic at best and we follow our culture in not giving too much credence to speculations about demons or spirits. |
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| Voltaire used the earthquake to attack deistic optimism. This slender volume suggests that scientific and technical responses mattered as much as moral and philosophical ones. |
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| Favouring a deistic form of civil religion, Robespierre implied that the atheism displayed by some de-Christianizers was a variant of counterrevolution. |
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| In fact, many lodges praised the Grand Architect, the masonic terminology for the deistic divine being who created a scientifically ordered universe. |
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| These are arguments for the existence of a Spinozistic or Deistic 'God of Nature' who or which leaves Nature and its creatures entirely to their own devices. |
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