Sentences with phrase «by deists»

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

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

It has been used by Deists and others to mean a non-personal and non-interventionist «god» (some of those would hesitate to even personify «god» as a distinct «being»).

demonstrated by their Deist beliefs.

AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICES COMMITTEE AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS (Founded by Deist - Unitarian Clara Barton) AMERICARES HANDS ON HUMANITY is a project of the Universist Movement.

Not exact matches

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.

Another thing to remember... the US was intended to be a secular republic by the founding fathers, many of whom had religious convictions, and some of whom were deists or atheists.

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

By using the word «god» without adjectives to describe both a deist, weak, small god and a full - blown god is the confusing element.

I'm not a deist and that model does fit and I think interventionist is poor theology and goes against the «Every event is a gift from God» model set by Augustine and echoed in the Reformation.

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.

Vic As a Deist I am offended by you daily praise on a public site and so would a Maltheist.

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.

By definition he would be a deist.

But this Deist view of nature (as the manifestation of divine reason) was soon replaced by a Cartesian world view that set human reason outside and above nature.

Being a Deist, I am sort of confused by your post.

In America, for Deist as well as for Puritan, God's involvement was direct; in Mexico God's influence was mediated by church, priest, sacrament, and saint.

I'm not an atheist, perhaps a loose deist in the grandest sense, but I am fairly certain that all of the gods created by mankind are quite false.

It's beginnings lie in the Deist movement which was embraced by the majority of the US founding fathers.

The deists were influential well beyond the theological arena by virtue of the fact that a large number of this country's Founding Fathers were Deists, whether closeted or odeists were influential well beyond the theological arena by virtue of the fact that a large number of this country's Founding Fathers were Deists, whether closeted or oDeists, whether closeted or openly.

This was the belief of the deists — a mechanical universe presided over by a divine engineer, who having made it left it to run itself.

It seems to me that this classic debate between deists, theists, and panentheists is only occasioned by issues rising out of Big Bang physics.

H. S. Reimarus (1694 - 1768), the author of the fragments (not identified by Lessing), had been influenced by the English Deists and had decided that the Gospels were not merely inaccurate but fraudulent.

Hey CNN, how bout showcasing companies run by atheists or those with an agnostic or deist bent?

The part about it being alleged is an 18th century Deist concoction swallowed by our Modern Atheists.

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.

Most of the Founders were Deists, which is to say they thought the universe had a creator, but that he does not concern himself with the daily lives of humans, and does not directly communicate with humans, either by revelation or by sacred books.

As a result of the combined efforts of the dissenting Churches and the mild deists such as Jefferson and Madison, full religious liberty was established by law in Virginia in 1785.

As a modern day deist I accept the term creator but doubt that it has any resemblance to any of the man made creation myths and may be explained eventually by the study of nature and the universe.

By the way, I consider myself a mix between a deist, agnostic, and unitarian Christian.

The most common religion listed on the site is «none,» closely followed by atheist and agnostic, with a few Christians, Jews, and an occasional deist, pantheist, or humanist in the mix.