Sentences with phrase «think deists»
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Jeff Deist and Daniel McAdams give us their thoughts about what the early days of the Trump administration may mean for our future.
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Jefferson, Washington and Franklin were well know deists NOT Christians as we Americans would like to think.
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.»
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.
I thought I was an atheist until the age of 45 when I realized that I was a Deist: I believe there was a God but that He / She is long gone and has no direct influence on anything that happens today.
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.
But I can agree that the author was probably not thinking the fool was an atheist, rather that the fool thought God was absent and not taking any notice of what he was doing — more a deist than an atheist perhaps.
As a deist, I still think it's alright, but kind of eccentric.
It does not designate a school of thought, and perspectives of the deists varied widely.
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 don't think Spinoza was a deist as that is usually concieved.
Most of the Founders were Deists, which is to say they thought the universe had a creator, but that he does not concern himself with the daily lives of humans, and does not directly communicate with humans, either by revelation or by sacred books.
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.