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 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
“A timely and necessary guide for anyone caught between religion and non-belief. There is a third path -- guided by reason, grounded… — S.D. Hagen Copy Share Image
“I will discuss four of these themes in more detail: the nature of man, the nature of God, the influence of Deism,… — Grant Palmer 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
The definition of deism is the philosophical idea of God as a first cause of the universe, who lays down the laws… — Elizabeth S. Anderson 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
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
“The liberality of the age, or in other words the weakening of the obstinate prejudice, which makes men unable to see what… — Christopher Hitchens 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
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
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
“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
“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
. . . Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“If there was a God he reasoned it would have the same relation to us as we have to blades of grass.… — Tom Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature. . .… — John Adams Copy Share Image
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