Sentences with phrase «like deists»

SBNR includes: — Believers in «traditional» religions (like Christianity but who don't have a particular denominational affilliation)-- Believers in a higher power (but not an anthropomorphic God) like the Deists — Believers in new - agey pick - and - choosey cafeteria style religion with a bit of this and a bit of that eg: (hippy Jesus + reincarnation + feng shui)-- Believers who don't want to be associated with the «organized religion» label — Non-believers who don't want to be perceieved as «non-spiritual» (rather much like this topic)-- Non-believers who don't want to be associated with the «agnostic» or «atheist» labels — and «other»

But he may have believed in something more like the Deists» impersonal god as the «uncaused cause» of the universe.

Not exact matches

If religion can be turned on its head like this — where the Invisible Hand of Wall Street (invisible to the Justice Department, at least) is elevated to a faux - Deist moral philosophy — is it any surprise that economic orthodoxy and formerly progressive tax policy is succumbing?

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

I sometimes have wondered if the more Deist or Spinoza god concept could be followed to the idea that a creative force jump - started this universe only to move on to a new project, maybe never to return, but I like the notion that such a creative force might still be around but perhaps, building on your notion, re-inventing itself and perhaps expanding the internal complexity of this universe as well as time goes on.

Some are deists, like you.

Some, like Ethan Allen, were «non-Christian Deists»; others, like George Washington, were «Christian Deists»; still others — John Jay, for example — were «orthodox Christians.»

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.

If you go to the deism site and look at the definition of deism in the glossary, you will see what I like about the handle deist.

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

The deists at the time of Darwin and before said the design of nature was like that.

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.

I agree that «Agnostic» would have been the better term here, because Agnostics (and Deists) generally deny the god of Christianity not because they don't like how Christ described him, but rather how Christ's «followers» have portrayed him.

Why does it say on replying to some of my earlier posts, like «Our forefathers were not Christian, they were deists» that «my comment is awaiting moderation?»

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

It seems like he is trying to claim that because some were deists then the country has Christian roots and thus should defend religious discrimination?

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