Those who limited their beliefs to this natural religion we may
call deists.
So much for Jefferson being an Episcopalian lol... in that context, I'm not even sure you could
call him a deist!!
Not exact matches
any so -
called «Christian» who is believes in evolution is 1) a
Deist and 2) very definitely not a Christian.
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 have no argument on what I would
call an agnostic atheist versus a
deist.
Evangelicals going against the so
called «bible»... that's nice... maybe they'll eventually evolve to
Deists and we'll be rid of these backward humans
Deist = all gods are god just people
calling them different names Polytheist = there are multiple odds and their all equally valid Monotheist my god is the only god, your worshiping the devil; now die they are the only ones who are right and they hat those that are not them.
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.»
† Ad hominem † Ad hominem † Ad hominem † Conjecture † Ad hominem † Ad hominem † Conjecture † Confusing association with causation † Conjecture † Confusing association with causation † hasty generalization † hasty generalization † hasty generalization † hasty generalization † Ad hominem (The French Revolution was also inspired by something you might believe in
called the American Revolution that was led by
Deists, Christians and Freethinkers.)