Sentences with phrase «n't deists»

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

I am not a deist, so I never get into these disputes wabout whose god or gods are more powerful, which ones exist and which ones don't.

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.

Vic If I wasn't a Deist I would probably prefer a belief in Malthiesm especially in regards to your holy trinity.

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.

Deists generally did not believe in the divinity of Christ and did not believe in a God that played an active role in people's lives.

Most were deists (not Christians) and Jefferson was, for all intents and purposes, an atheist (Thomas Paine was the most outspoken atheist of the bunch).

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

franklin was a deist (believe in a god, but one that didn't meddle in human affairs.

BTW, Christians did not create establish this system, the founders of this republic although a few were theist most were agnostic or deist.

I have a better idea, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and Benjamin Franklin were not religious people (Deists, believers in a distant God).

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.

a deist does not believe in supernatural events such as miracles, the inerrancy of scriptures, or the Trinity.

any so - called «Christian» who is believes in evolution is 1) a Deist and 2) very definitely not a Christian.

The Christian, there is only one god and it is a personal god, the Hindu there are many gods, the Buddhist there are only prophets, the Jew there is a god but the messiah has not yet arrived, the Deist there maybe a universal creative force but certainly zero chance of a supernatural personal god, I could go on but which of these statements is true?

All around us, Christian or not, deist or not, there are people filled with drive, desire, a positive outlook, and wonderful compassion.

Clearly these samples, only a small part of what might be adduced, are not the prayers of a deist to an impersonal, nonintervening god.

Chris as a Deist I do not agree with your Christian perspective.

While I believe there are no gods, I am not as certain there is no deist god as I'm certain the gods of the big religions are bunk.

The deist perspective strikes me as reasonable, while none of the Abrahamic religions, and none of the ancient European religions strike me as having a credible basis (I'm not familiar with most others).

The answer to that question is «yes» for religious people, Deists and Spiritual but Not Religious people and «I'm not sure» for agnostiNot Religious people and «I'm not sure» for agnostinot sure» for agnostics.

I certainly do not believe that all deists are theists, but all theists are indeed deists.

SeaVik As a Deist and my friends the agnostics and the spiritual but not religious all would prefer the none religious handle.

There is no God, and America was founded by equally deluded Deists, not Christians.

Many of our found!ng fathers were deist, who, while they often mentioned «God», did not mean it in the + radi + ion @l Biblical sense.

dishonest atheists / deists / evolutionists always want to tie the hands of anyone opposed to their myth but it won't happen here.

False, the founding fathers were Deists, not Theists.

Deists of that time generally did not believe in the divinity of Christ nor did they believe in the supernatural aspects of the Bible.

Six of the seven Founding Fathers were Deists, not Christians.

It's not even deist.

Bushgirlsgonewild: I am a person of faith, and I am neither Christian (or any sort of Deist) nor determine that God does not exist.

The deist often identifies with the watchmaker analogy: once the watchmaker (God if you will) creates the watch and winds it up, it then starts running according to plan and does not require the watchmaker's further intervention.

It doesn't take much to figure out that the Deist is merely making up his / her own terms about God; they may come to those terms in somewhat of a logical way, but when you ask them the «hows» about their «faith,» they seem to come back to the «personal relationship» they can not articulate.

God did not create once upon a time and then let things run their course, as the deists maintained.

Toss in the occasional deist and follower of spiritual / philosophical traditions that don't lean heavily on the supernatural such as certain forms of buddhism, pretty much all confucianism, etc, and we're really cooking.

Many liberal Christians, on the other hand, are essentially deists; it is their view that after having created the world and revealed the divine will in its structure and the laws of nature, God can not be looked to for further intervention.

«They» came here, played around with our DNA and then left... For those who believe that God still exist, it's their right to believe just as it's the right of an atheist to not believe, just as it's a deist's right to believe.

Not to be too picky, but Deist only defines a persons beliefs as much a «atheist» does.

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.

I suspect most Americans are Deists... which in and of itself carries several variations The short list is strict Deist; no involvement by God in daily things (wind the clock and let it tick down), Christian Deist; believeing in the goodness of Jesus Christ and following his ways, but not acknowleding his divinity (same could be said for any number of historical figures), and those Deists who believe God does intervene on occasion in the world.

There are many deists but not most.

Obama is a deist not a Christians, but that's ok, because following the bible is evil, what Christians need is to waking there Animistic nature

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....

Many of them considered themselves to be Deists because they were not comfortable with Christianity.

Lion, many of the most prominent founding fathers were deists, that is, they believed that a god created them, but that god was not interested in human affairs, there are no miracles and that Christ, while a fine teacher was no more than another human.

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

Depends on how you define God, most likely he was a deist but did not believe in the exact Christian God of the Bible.

It spans atheists, agnostics, the «spritual but not religious» crowd, deists and those who are religious but don't belong to a particular denomination.