| 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. |
| And since he asserts that atheism equals nihilism, and deism equals atheism lite, then I must really be a nihilist. |
| As I stated previously, in 18th century deism there were two keys to distinguishing between deism and theism in its various forms. |
| 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. |
| Originating late in 1796, this movement of intellectual, republican deism prospered in towns where dechristianization had been popular. |
| He reacts against the heresy of deism, the belief that God wound up the universe in the beginning but lets it run without intervention. |
