Sentences with phrase «even deist»

And maybe even my Deist students more Christian over the long haul, at least.

It's not even deist.

They assumed that the Constitution, a distillation of Christian principles (life, liberty, etc.), would be interpreted in the light of the Judeo - Christian tradition, to which even the Deists and free - thinkers among them owed their conception of ethics [pp. 62 - 63].

Not exact matches

So much for Jefferson being an Episcopalian lol... in that context, I'm not even sure you could call him a deist!!

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

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.

Even then there was conflict because there were different Christian sects as well as Deists and Unitarians.

At the same time, from various motives some Christians, even bishops and clergymen, described themselves as deists as well as Christians.

Even those who are deist can pray to God, without acknowledging that Jesus is the Only Begotten Son of God.

The early founders of the Boy Scouts of America, who were mostly deists or liberal Protestants themselves, made this particular element of Baden - Powell's vision even more central to their organization.

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»).

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....

After two months of being bedridden in severe pain, I cried out to God, even though I was a One who believes in the existence of an impersonal God.deist deist at the time (I had gone from an agnostic atheist to a deist in college).

Prof. Johnson's God is not even the recessive Clockmaker God of the Deists.

But Christmas still reminds us that we're more than Calvinist or enlightened, principled Deists or even some combination of the two.

Such a revolutionary shift of perspective, typical of the Deists, nurtured a fascinating body of subversive literature, which actually began even before the heyday of Deism.

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.

The founding fathers were overwhelmingly religious, and even the few «deist» among them still held to Christian creed and morality (they merely denied the continued intervention of the divine into the mundane).

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

I'm not even counting deists (like Thomas Jefferson) or the more general «nones».