Sentences with phrase «deist if»

Though the most Deistic of the Founding Fathers, even Jefferson was not a full - fledged Deist if we accept that philosophy as having had two fundamental tenets: a rejection of biblical revelation and a conviction that God, having created the laws of the universe, had receded from day - to - day control....

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If religion can be turned on its head like this — where the Invisible Hand of Wall Street (invisible to the Justice Department, at least) is elevated to a faux - Deist moral philosophy — is it any surprise that economic orthodoxy and formerly progressive tax policy is succumbing?

Some aren't even sure if I'm a believer or an atheist, a deist or non-deist.

Chad Sir I am a lost deist trying to find if I can have free will without having «soul».

The deist often identifies with the watchmaker analogy: once the watchmaker (God if you will) creates the watch and winds it up, it then starts running according to plan and does not require the watchmaker's further intervention.

The deists feared that the lack of connection between virtue and reward in this life would lead to social chaos if there were no conviction that justice would be executed after death.

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.

I sometimes have wondered if the more Deist or Spinoza god concept could be followed to the idea that a creative force jump - started this universe only to move on to a new project, maybe never to return, but I like the notion that such a creative force might still be around but perhaps, building on your notion, re-inventing itself and perhaps expanding the internal complexity of this universe as well as time goes on.

Vic If I wasn't a Deist I would probably prefer a belief in Malthiesm especially in regards to your holy trinity.

If you go to the deism site and look at the definition of deism in the glossary, you will see what I like about the handle deist.

If Einstein was indeed an atheist rather than a Deist I (and Wikipedia) stand corrected.

Deists believed that a supreme being (god if you will) created the universe and then removed him / herself from the equation.

Theist, deist, agnostic, atheist, believer in a god figure, yes a god but not one that interferes with the lives of humans, don't really know if there is a god, there is no evidence of god therefore there is no god.

A Deistic god that has no interaction with the universe is by definition useless to believe in even if one exists, and no I am not claiming you are a deist.

If asked if I'm a deist or a theist, I say not reallIf asked if I'm a deist or a theist, I say not reallif I'm a deist or a theist, I say not really.

They would show what would happen if a deist were given a free chance to state his views publicly and fully!

If AGW climastrology is a religion with CO2 as its god, «luke warmers» are the deists who believe in it, but see its involvement as minimal.