Sentences with phrase «from deist»

AE, we can go on all day quoting and counterquoting scientists about god, but the reality is that most respected scientists and most smart people think that Christianity is a total fraud, quite apart from any deist or other god beliefs and speculations.

Pope: «We can go on all day quoting and counter-quoting scientists about god, but the reality is that most respected scientists and most smart people think that Christianity is a total fraud, quite apart from any deist or other god beliefs and speculations.»

From the deists of the Enlightenment to modern - day writers such as Robert Funk, the movement has always had anticlerical and antiorthodox tendencies.

From the deists of the Enlightenment to modern - day writers such as Robert Funk, the movement has always had....

Most Americans are Christian, very far from deists.

Not exact matches

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

You can't really believe that atheists, agnostics, deists and other religions can not determine right from wrong because they do not believe in an objective morality, don't be so obtuse.

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

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.

Actually I got the idea that Einstein was a Deist from Wikipedia I seem to recall.

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....

Deists believed that a supreme being (god if you will) created the universe and then removed him / herself from the equation.

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).

Throughout this post we've seen all manner of TAG (Kalam's Cosmological Argument, Argument from Design, Argument from Complexity, Argument from Morality, Logical Absolutes... etc.) every one of which has been thoroughly refuted and at best would indicate only an extremely unlikely yet possible indifferent deist creator who set things in motion.

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...

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.

Among them the primary shapers of the Consti - tution were Deists and Christians with a small number of Atheists, with the others being excluded largely because they for the most part weren't drawn from the ranks of white male landowners.

The deists argue from the mechanical nature of the universe that its author must be like a machine maker — intelligent and purposeful.

More important to us is the work of H. S. Reimarus (1694 - 1768), a professor of oriental languages at a Gymnasium in Hamburg, who, under the influence of the English Deists, wrote a four - thousand - page manuscript Apologie oder Schutzschrift für die vernünftiger Verehrer Gottes, a defense of the deistic approach to religion, which he refrained from publishing.

This is a very different concept of ordering from the operations of the deus ex machina of the deists, which Darwin rightly rejected.

Here we are very far indeed from a «watchmaker» that winds up the universe, and then goes his way, as the Deists tended to argue.

I've tried to consider all the possibilities, from an activist God to a sort of Deist watch - winder to a universe based on circumstance and luck.

Deists differ from pantheists in that the deist God is some kind of cosmic intelligence, rather than the pantheist's metaphoric or poetic synonym for the laws of the universe.

Deists differ from theists in that their God does not answer prayers, is not interested in sins or confessions, does not read our thoughts and does not intervene with capricious miracles.