Sentences with word «deist»

But anyway, Stephen Hawking explicitly rejects the concept of god, even an abstract impersonal god of the sort Deists believe in.

Ran across many interesting quotes from our founding fathers who are so oft cited today as deists who believed in separation of church and state...

Calling to each other in names adopted from deist writers, they gathered their forces for one great onslaught on revealed religion.

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

They were Deists at best.

They were Christian deists.

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

Astute observers of the Christian pathos will recognize a similar strategy at work in the writings of the English Deists Matthew Tindal and John Locke, and in the German Pietists Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Schleiermacher.

It may seem that Novak is now skirting the discredited Deist view that revelation is merely a republication of the Book of Nature, that Scripture merely reminds us of what nature already testifies.

Like Gerrish, I would rather argue with Deists than with deconstructionists.

It's not even deist.

I guess when you say Perry can return us to our founding beliefs, you think that he will disgust Americans so much that they will turn away from religion and become deists, like many of the men who created the government of this nation.

The mild deists such as Jefferson were also shocked.

You don't like deists — we GET it.

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.

Against this view thoroughgoing deists argued that belief in miracles is a superstition.

Those who limited their beliefs to this natural religion we may call deists.

In a word, I soon became a thorough Deist» — Ben Franklin from his autobiography

But many Deists also believed that God did not interfere with the lives of his creation.

I don't want to debate whether Canada or the US were built on deist or Christian principles, but I do want to remind us that our God blesses the «poor in spirit», not the proud.

He was giving the young deist students an opportunity to prove the foolishness of the Bible and so of Christianity.

Agnostic atheists, agnostic theists, agnostic deists, etc..

I can see going from atheist to some kind of Universalist / Deist position, but Catholic?

which seems to imply a 10 % Deist viewpoint, and 90 % Interventionist viewpoint with only positive actions.

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

Also Deist are still respectfully, the Faithful.

possible deist, animists,..

I was a Moralistic Therapeutic Deist before the term was coined.

Some were indeed deist and as a whole they believed God that would set this country apart from all other nations.

Do you think Deists were Christians?

SkyVic Seems you are out of touch with modern Deists.

This country was founded using Deist language, if you did some independent research you would learn that.

He acknowledges that radical deists like Thomas Paine played a pivotal role but points out that their religious beliefs did not necessarily carry the day.

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....

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

I've tried explaining this to Deists before but they really don't get it.