The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I'm always talking to God about whether or not he exists - that's how I know I'm a theist.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“If the world is a Watch, as the Deists claim, then it is evidently two minutes behind. —James Beresford, The Miseries of… — Tad Tuleja Copy Share Image
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The greatest trick Christianity ever pulled was convincing the world that Satan exists.” — Aaron B. Powell Copy Share Image
The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Most of the Founders and Framers were Deists. Deism is a religion that believes in a God who really doesn’t give a… — Ed Asner Copy Share Image
I can't tell Black people to fight a war that is Israel's war. What kind of leader will you be, or should… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of His… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Mind, rather than emerging as a late outgrowth in the evolution of life, has existed always as the matrix, the source and… — George Wald Copy Share Image
“Pandeism: This is the belief that God created the universe, is now one with it, and so, is no longer a separate… — Alan Dawe Copy Share Image
I think that some "interventionist theisms" are compatible with evolutionary theory. (By "intervention," I don't mean that God violates laws of nature;… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Deism is logically compatible with evolutionary theory for the simple reason that the theory says nothing about the origin of the universe… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
If the Bible is only human lore, and not divine truth, then we have no real answer to those who say, Let's… — J. Sidlow Baxter Copy Share Image
“His own deism allowed for a God who, having made the world, having made the world, did not participate in the working… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
“I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in protestant countries the defections from the Platonic Christianity of the priests is to Deism,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“His own deism allowed for a God who, having made the world, did not participate in the working out of its ends,… — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
“Moralistic Therapeutic Deism, say Smith and Denton, seems to be “colonizing many historical religious traditions and, almost without anyone noticing, converting believers… — Kenda Creasy Dean Copy Share Image
“You desire to know something of my Religion. It is the first time I have been questioned upon it: But I do… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I learned to build bookshelves and brought books to my room, gathering them around me thickly. I read by day and into… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Besides (said he) do you not observe what a keen Edge Christian Faith puts upon the ill-nature of Divines, when they are… — William Stephens Copy Share Image
“In both instances of Franklin and Jefferson, revisionist writers have emphasized those aspects of their beliefs that are consistent with Christian faith,… — Steven K. Green Copy Share Image
“I remember one Gentleman objected to the Christian Faith, that it made Men insolent, quarrelsom and ill-natur'd. From whence I concluded, (as… — William Stephens Copy Share Image
“Thus that Upright Judge, whose three Letters my Friend having read, did well approve of 'em, acknowledging, that with great Exactness he… — William Stephens Copy Share Image
“{ When Abraham Lincoln was 26 years old in 1835, he wrote a defense of Thomas Paine 's deism; a political associate,… — Roy Basler Copy Share Image
“For if you look over the State of Religion as it standeth in Christendom, there is no Church whatsoever which will accept… — William Stephens Copy Share Image
“I have generally been denominated a Deist, the reality of which I never disputed, being conscious I am no Christian , except… — Ethan Allen Copy Share Image
“My Parents had early given me religious Impressions, and brought me through my Childhood piously in the Dissenting Way. But I was… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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