| Deist or Gallican, he was a confirmed enemy of obscurantism in all its forms. |
| The god they present is neither the impassive god of the Oriental nor the nonhistorical god of the Deist. |
| Instead, the Deist relies solely on personal reason to guide his creed, which was eminently agreeable to many thinkers of the time. |
| The first two published instalments of the manuscript contained material which was drawn from Deist criticisms, though worked out with great thoroughness. |
| 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. |
| Ethan Allen, for example, appears clearly to have been a non-Christian Deist. |
