Sentences with phrase «lockean deism»

It's called Deism and Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine and a few other American Founders believed in it.

Change to Deism.

And most of your argument would be in favor of deism, but it starts to fall apart if you apply Abrahamic god.

Deism is the belief that God created the universe and then left it alone to run itself.

Most atheists are also agnostics but it's very possible to be an atheist and still believe in a type of spirit or god existing, it's more of a deism though than anything else.

Most of the remaining SBNR are more in line with variants of Deism, Buddhism and other Eastern spiritualism often, but not always, in a cafeteria style approach religion.

- Christian, - Judaism, - Muslim, - Buddhism, - Deism, - Atheism, - Satanism, - Hinduism, - Scientology - Agnostic, - Wiccan, - Other - Specify the religion here — > Sufism etc., - Not willing to disclose

Dean says more American teenagers are embracing what she calls «moralistic therapeutic deism.»

An enlightenment symbol which is intrinsically tied to deism.

Just so you know, deism refers to a certain set of beliefs and not just anyone who believes in a deity of some sort.

Atheist / Agnostic / Non-Alchemist / Non-Astrologer here... really don't like theism or deism, but this chap seems like a good sort

After all, «Good people go to heaven after they die» is one of the tenets of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism that sociologist Christian Smith identified in his omnibus study of religious youth in America (Soul Searching).

The position of deism or pandeism is equally valid for a first cause.

If the American Founding Fathers were not Christian, where did they get their deism?

The general drift of deism is that the originating and governing force of the universe is the god of modern rationalists (Newton, Spinoza, et al.), not at all like the Great God Jehovah of the Hebrew Bible.

Franklin, for example, waffled between Quakerism as a boy and youth, Presbyterian (for five weeks), Episcopalian, atheism and Deism.

But whether atheism, humanism, evolution, deism, new age, Islam, Christianity, or Judaism — you believe these things as facts, and you most likely have plenty of writing to «back it up.».

What you describe is moral deism, not the belief that you have been restored and made right with God through his loving sacrifice for you.

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Of course Deism holds to the belief of God as the creator of the universe.

I personally don't see any functional difference that matters between Deism and atheism.

Others see more the hand of the Enlightenment's philosophical Deism at work.

It is these other things beyond Deism that the atheist doesn't believe in.

We hear more and more the influence of Deism on the key founders, who were fed up with the persecution between various fundamental Christians sects that was going on at the time.

I submit that ethical atheism or deism are also good.

Atheism or agnosticism replaced theism or deism as the dominant religion of the cultured.

Deism had spread out over the mountains into the Ohio Valley, into Tennessee, and into Kentucky.

Of course one can find deism and a broad move to the impersonal, but there is an equally powerful move to the personal.

Deism is the doctrine that God created the world and its natural laws but takes no further part in its functioning, he does not interfere in the day - to - day workings of the universe, he does not concern himself with humans and our affairs.

Just as the deism of Tom Paine posed a problem for the Churches as a new frontier in thought, so did the physical frontier present the Churches with a challenge.

The metaphor does come far closer to pantheism than the king - realm model, which verges on deism, but it does not identify God totally with the world any more than we identify ourselves totally with our bodies.

This was no genteel deism satisfied that the churches were a great force for moral good in society.

That god would be a Desist god, and I have no problem with Deism.

Deism provides a framework within which a Supreme Being might be understood to have created the universe and then left it to its own devices.

Deism appealed to these men and women who in their rough freedom fought out their own battles.

This is no providential deism.

Is not this whole mode of thought simply part of the evil legacy from deism, in which God was conceived as being absent from his world, and in which therefore he must be thought to «intrude» into his world, to «intervene» in it, whenever he would act in any distinctive and particular way?

So, no, he is NOT espousing deism.

And he's concluded that regardless of their religious affiliation, young Americans tend to subscribe to a faith he calls Moralistic Therapeutic Deism.

What should be obvious is that this man is espousing Deism.

Anyone who takes this fellow seriously isn't much of a Christian, anyway, and will probably be a non-believer within a matter of years; after all, Atheism is the logical conclusion of Deism.

Once again not only is your math off but you're are comparing all wars since the beginning of history to the 47 years when atheists tried to wipe out deism killing 285 million worshipers.

If we get away from silly notions of a spatial transcendence, in which God is (so to speak) «out there» and which is in effect the God of eighteenth - century Deism, we shall be able to maintain with the Old Testament that God is «the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity,» yet is also near to us, with us, in us, and for us.

In light of that comment I had to wonder if the confirmation program was teaching Christianity or Moralistic Therapeutic Deism.

Most Christian teens are «at best only tenuously Christian,» having confused Christianity with «Moralistic Therapeutic Deism.»

I just wish that more people would go to deism.com and find out what modern Deism is all about.

After looking at a few essays, I still conclude there is scant difference between atheism and Deism.

kudlak Not quite, modern deism believes in a creative universal force, not a supreme creative being, there is a difference, check out deism.com.

Unwittingly, in trying to combat what he thought was a temporal deism, McCabe may have ended up with a sort of moral deism.

Pandeism reconciles elements of Pantheism and Deism to determine through logic and reason what the most probable means and motivation of a Creator would be.