Sentences with phrase «christian deists»

Some, like Ethan Allen, were «non-Christian Deists»; others, like George Washington, were «Christian Deists»; still others — John Jay, for example — were «orthodox Christians.»

They were Christian deists.

I suspect most Americans are Deists... which in and of itself carries several variations The short list is strict Deist; no involvement by God in daily things (wind the clock and let it tick down), Christian Deist; believeing in the goodness of Jesus Christ and following his ways, but not acknowleding his divinity (same could be said for any number of historical figures), and those Deists who believe God does intervene on occasion in the world.

A christian deist, emphasis on the deist, he's a far more unique brand of christian than Obama.

Not exact matches

The founding fathers weren't deists or Christians — they were Jews.

But I reached a point where I could no longer believe in the christian god and became a deist.

Our government was founded by a combination of Christians and Deists, but having studied the actions of our government even against it's own people we haven't been a Christian nation since the beginning, much as some people want it to be.

Most were deists (not Christians) and Jefferson was, for all intents and purposes, an atheist (Thomas Paine was the most outspoken atheist of the bunch).

Jefferson, Washington and Franklin were well know deists NOT Christians as we Americans would like to think.

Even then there was conflict because there were different Christian sects as well as Deists and Unitarians.

BTW, Christians did not create establish this system, the founders of this republic although a few were theist most were agnostic or deist.

Deist, yes, but Christian, no.

any so - called «Christian» who is believes in evolution is 1) a Deist and 2) very definitely not a Christian.

The Christian, there is only one god and it is a personal god, the Hindu there are many gods, the Buddhist there are only prophets, the Jew there is a god but the messiah has not yet arrived, the Deist there maybe a universal creative force but certainly zero chance of a supernatural personal god, I could go on but which of these statements is true?

All around us, Christian or not, deist or not, there are people filled with drive, desire, a positive outlook, and wonderful compassion.

Chris as a Deist I do not agree with your Christian perspective.

At the same time, from various motives some Christians, even bishops and clergymen, described themselves as deists as well as Christians.

There is no God, and America was founded by equally deluded Deists, not Christians.

Today I'd say I'm agnostic — generally of the atheist opinion but sometimes wishful deist — socially Christian with a strong affinity for Buddhist philosophy.

Six of the seven Founding Fathers were Deists, not Christians.

Bushgirlsgonewild: I am a person of faith, and I am neither Christian (or any sort of Deist) nor determine that God does not exist.

It would simplify matters if Christians had consistently followed what I am calling the biblical interpretation of our civil religion, and deists and rationalists had followed the utilitarian interpretation.

Many liberal Christians, on the other hand, are essentially deists; it is their view that after having created the world and revealed the divine will in its structure and the laws of nature, God can not be looked to for further intervention.

Clearly the Founders had minds of their own, as is evidenced by the subtle religious differences among Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe, who, contrary to popular opinion, were neither radical deists nor evangelical Christians.

I am a modern day deist and of all the man made gods I find the Christian one the most disgusting and has caused so much suffering in the world.

And maybe even my Deist students more Christian over the long haul, at least.

Obama is a deist not a Christians, but that's ok, because following the bible is evil, what Christians need is to waking there Animistic nature

Most Americans are Christian, very far from deists.

This is convincingly demonstrated by Deists, as well as many Christians, Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, etc..

Actually, there's evidence that the founding fathers were actually Deists — not Christians.

Depends on how you define God, most likely he was a deist but did not believe in the exact Christian God of the Bible.

OUr founding fathers were Deist, they had nothing but contempt for religious christians.

The only person who could possibly know whether Thomas Jefferson is a Deist, atheist, Christian, Agnostic, etc, is Thomas Jefferson himself.

The founding fathers were deists, not christians.

Jefferson was a Deist, not a Christian, and emphatically rejected the divinity of Jesus, he did however respect some of the teachings attributed to Jesus.

Of course, John and Abigail Adams and Samuel Adams were devout Christians (unlike Jefferson who was a deist), and they were strongly against slavery.

The fact is, almost all of us — atheists, agnostics, deists, Christians, Muslims, Hindi, Buddhists, Jews, etc — help because we're compassionate, empathetic people.

These are deist terms, and markedly not christian.

Deist Christians may have followed Christ's teachings, but usually refuted the divinity of Christ.

They assumed that the Constitution, a distillation of Christian principles (life, liberty, etc.), would be interpreted in the light of the Judeo - Christian tradition, to which even the Deists and free - thinkers among them owed their conception of ethics [pp. 62 - 63].

As for Jefferson, Whitehead says he shared a high view of Christianity, which his statement evidences: «I tremble for my country, when I reflect that God is just,» The writer concludes that to call them «true deists is as erroneous as to call Karl Barth an evangelical Christian» (The Separation Illusion [Mott Media, 1977], pp. 20 - 21).

As the American founder and Deist Thomas Paine made clear in his book on God, religion, Deism, etc., The Age of Reason, The Complete Edition, «The Calvinist, who damns children of a span long to hell to burn forever for the glory of God (and this is called Christianity), and the Universalist who preaches that all shall be saved and none shall be damned (and this also is called Christianity), boasts alike of their holy [revealed] religion and their Christian faith.»

Many of the founding fathers (Jefferson, Paine, Franklin, Washington, etc) were not Christians but were deists.

That was very christian at the time but Jefferson was a deist, no believer in the religious pedlars we see today.

In the 18th century, as I will attempt to show, there was a common set of religious and moral understandings rooted in a conception of divine order under a Christian, or at least a deist, God.

He then traces how this inwardness developed through Christian, Deist and Enlighten - ment forms, until the Romantic movement tried to reconnect individual consciousness with the world of nature.

John Jay and Alexander Hamilton were Christians, Thomas Paine and James Madison were Deists (believed in a God, but not the divinity of Christ who was a respected teacher of morality).

It is well known that most of the Founding Fathers were Christians, and the rest were Deists, but that Religion had little role in the politics behind the Revolution.

1) America was founded by deists (men who believed in an all - powerful creator but not the Christian god).

Voltaire's poem is not a challenge to Christian faith; it inveighs against a variant of the «deist» God, one who has simply ordered the world exactly as it now is, and who balances out all its eventualities in a precise equilibrium between felicity and morality.