Deism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Deism (\ˈdi:iz(ə)m\) or (\ˈdē-ˌi-zəm\) is a religious and philosophical belief that a supreme being created the universe, and that this (and religious truth in general) can be determined using reason...
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List of deists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a partial list of people who have been categorized as deists , the belief in a God based on natural religion only, or belief in religious truths discovered by people through a process of r...
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Brief survey of Deism and its links to Unitarian thought. ... American Unitarian Conference Promoting the American Unitarian Tradition ... The first of the prominent English Deists was Lord Herbert of Cherbury. In 1624 he published a work called De Veritate in which he outlined the five basic beliefs of the English Deists:
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www.americanunitarian.org/demaydeism.htm
www.americanunitarian.org/demaydeism.htm
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American deists ranged from the moderate anticlericism, rational morality, and political liberalism of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin to the much less common militant deism of Ethan Allen and Thomas Paine, who called for an abolition of traditional religion.
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www.sullivan-county.com/id3/jefferson_deist.htm
www.sullivan-county.com/id3/jefferson_deist.htm
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Such a view of American history is completely contrary to known facts. The primary leaders of the so-called founding fathers of our nation were not Bible-believing Christians; they were deists. Deism was a philosophical belief that was widely accepted by the colonial intelligentsia at the time of the American Revolution.
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American Deists; Brings together the works of six major American deists - Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Ethan Allen, Thomas Paine, Elihu Palmer and Philip Freneau (and of the influential Frenchman, Comte de Volney) to offer an analysis of deism and rational religi ... Voices of Reason and Dissent in the Early Republic;
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Deists believe in the existence of God, on purely rational grounds, without any reliance on revealed religion or religious authority. Because of this, Deism is quite different from religions like Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
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www.religioustolerance.org/deism.htm
www.religioustolerance.org/deism.htm
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Thomas Jefferson and John Adams are usually considered the leading American deists. There is no doubt that they subscribed to the deist credo that all religious claims were to be subjected to the scrutiny of reason.
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That would hardly qualify them as deists. We're trying to track down a list of exactly who they were. Once we have the list we'll post them on this same page. ... The majority of the founding fathers and American's in general were Christians. As we have seen from the above link to the Mayflower Compact, the main reason...
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