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	What is a Deist?
		The first deist in England is often thought to be Lord Herbert of Cherbury, who in the 17th century, formulated that a supreme power, existed, should be worshipped, receive offerings of penance, and that a lasting kingdom existed after death.
		Usually, George Washington is included in the list of deists.
		Many Deists that I know attend UU churches, since Deism and the UU are intertwined in many ways throughout their separate histories.
	www.wisegeek.com /what-is-a-deist.htm (732 words)

	Deism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Deists reject both organized and revealed religion and maintain that reason is the essential element in all knowledge.
		Historically, many deists adhered to this view; others hold a more pantheist or pandeist view that in creating the world, God became the world and does not exist as a separate entity from it; while some hold that God intervenes only as a subtle and pervasive force in the universe.
		Deists maintain that the opposite is true and that this view leads to a feeling of awe and reverence based on the fact that personal growth and a constant search for knowledge is required.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deism (1294 words)

	List of deists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a partial list of believers in Deism, the belief in a God based on natural religion only, or belief in religious truths discovered by people through a process of reasoning, independent of any revelation through scripture or prophets.
		Most attempts to analyze his spiritual views are based on his philosophical dialogs, and experts are split on whether he was an atheist or a deist based on these; see also list of atheists.
		George Washington: Though Washington's religious beliefs are a matter of dispute, there is considerable evidence that indicates that Washington, like numerous other men of his time, was a Deist, believing in God, but not in revelation or miracles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Deists (251 words)

	Deist/Deism Christian religion Christians honoring God & The Son of Man "Jesus Christ" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		These professional ministers opposed the deist belief that all persons have natural knowledge of God's "truth," and these professional ministers sought to protect their role in the church by assuming that clergy were superior to lay persons in understanding and interpreting scriptures.
		Early Christian deists saw the organizational hierarchy of the trinitarian church as the means used by the professional clergy to enforce their "authority" over the lay membership of the church and to require adherence to so-called "orthodox" trinitarian doctrines.
		Note: A deist, as denying a revelation, is opposed to a Christian; as, opposed to the denier of a God, whether atheist or pantheist, a deist is generally denominated theist.
	deist.org (3032 words)

	FAQ About Deism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Deists tend to view with extreme suspicion any efforts to claim divine authority, whether it be claiming to speak for God directly, being part of an order allegedly favored by God or citing so-called "sacred scripture" allegedly written by those who allegedly spoke for God.
		Deists believe in "miracles" in the sense that all of life and the universe around us is a miracle.
		Deists tend to be deeply suspicious of claims of miracles in the sense of fantastic events described in the Bible and other scriptures of Theism.
	www.deism.org /faq.htm (4579 words)

	Deism and Reason
		Deists oppose all forms of religious meddling in people's lives and believe that one's choice of religious beliefs is up to the individual and is a highly personal choice.
		Deists regard their faith as a natural religion, as contrasted with one that is revealed by a God or which is artificially created by humans.
		Deists do not attribute human qualities to God and reject those teachings that depicts our Creator as a homicidal maniac who drowns the world in floods (Genesis), kills children just to punish somebody else (Exodus), or presents our Creator as a fool to be outwitted by a mythical serpent.
	www.sullivan-county.com /deism.htm (6040 words)

	Enlighten me.... - UNIVERSIST FORUM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I even see the Deist's Intelligent Design Theory as being possible, though it doesn't seem very likely to me. This is probably what you meant when you asked about the Deist's beliefs on the origins of life.
		The majority of Deists seem to believe that life started the way modern science now suggests, and what we have here today is a result of evolution independent from anything the deity has done.
		As "Deists" you may feel that other religions are falsified, but you can still accept their intentions of having a peaceful world.
	universist.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=548 (6289 words)

	The Deist Document
		Deists most frequently mention that they instinctively consider nature's order and complexity to be some evidence for God's existence, and/or it satisfies their reasoning that the universe has a creator.
		Deists think that they are simply human-written books that portray the views their authors' held about the relations between God, humans, and the world at the time they were written.
		Deists, however, with science on their side chipping away at myths that many other religions have believed in; with highly universal and simplified principles to build on, and with a continuous and adaptable search for answers with reason and free inquiry as their guide, believe that they maintain the closest position to the truth.
	www.positivedeism.com /deistdoc.html (10736 words)

	Gateway \| March Issue Story 3
		Deists continued to be thought a problem; a generation after Stephens the Reverend Samuel Clarke (1675-1729), theologian and Newtonian, also believed that deism threatened England.
		According to him, "[deist] is one of the dirty words of the age."[12] In the same manner that ‘atheism’ was used as a pejorative by early-modern authors, the same is often true of ‘deism’;.
		Deists argued that if this historic religion could be exposed, its purity would appeal to the people who were adherents of the corrupted version of Christianity that priests passed off as the true religion.
	homepage.usask.ca /~jgz816/archive14.html (8224 words)

	Famous Deists
		Most famous people that one sees listed as "Deists" on various lists never actually identified themselves by name as "Deists," nor were they ever members of an organized Deist group.
		In some cases, the "Deist" label, when applied to a famous historical figure, is informative and truly does capture their philosophy and the way they lived their life and went about the activities that made them memorable.
		But the list is useful for considering which individuals are particularly admired by and claimed by contemporary deists, even if "deist" is not actually the best description of the religious affiliation of the individual listed.
	www.adherents.com /largecom/fam_deist.html (814 words)

	Wikinfo \| Deism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Some Deists hold the belief that the universe was created by a God who then made no further intervention in its affairs, often expressed by the metaphor of the "Divine Watchmaker" who created a mechanism so perfect as to be self-regulating.
		Thomas Jefferson is perhaps the most well known and outspoken of the American founding deists.
		Thomas Paine was also a deist, The Age of Reason being one publication which particularly expressed this view.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Deism (254 words)

	deists - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		The Deists of the early eighteenth century refused...It was, therefore, the denials of the Deists which raised the issue.
		Deists prime interest is the character constellations in which these...varied this type, with Didos sister Anna in the Aeneid being Deists main example.
		Dennis contends...he calls the "philosophers" (stoics or deists), he rejects another kind of enthusiasm...later lead to deism, nevertheless were not deists themselves and clearly viewed themselves...
	www.questia.com /search/deists (1748 words)

	Famous Adherents: What religion was...? (religious affiliation)
		We suggest that you not start by limiting your search to that directory first because there are many lists in other areas of the website wherin you may find the name of the person you are looking for.
		Likewise, these lists are not intended as a source of general information about religious groups or religious beliefs.
		These lists are about individual people, and no individual person is representative of a religious tradition as a whole.
	www.adherents.com /adh_fam.html (1025 words)

	For the Deists - Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Deists should stick together in affirming that revealed organized religions are bad for humanity, children (especially) and small animals (run JoJo! the master is getting ready to pray to his God and needs someone to sacrifice!)
		In reading spectral's list of the basic tenets of deist belief, I find them to be pretty close to my own view of God (always prefaced, in my case, by "if there is a God, then....").
		Yes, we do say "I am a Deist" and we say it proudly because it marks us as people who can use their brains for more than endless repeating of antique dogma.
	www.unexplained-mysteries.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=19686 (1825 words)

	PONDER Philosophical Essays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This list could go on, but I think the main culprit may be the lack of development of one of the aspects that define Deism.
		Perhaps the early Deist's maps were incomplete, and, like Columbus, did not anticipate a huge new territory in the path to God.
		What is to follow may be somewhat controversial and insulting to the Deist, but if we are afraid to explore the early shortcomings and missed potentialities, Deism may be as dead as the 18th century.
	www.deistnet.com /deismany.htm (6114 words)

	WallBuilders \| Resources \| Sample Letters to the Editor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A recent letter claimed that most of the Founding Fathers were deists, and pointed to Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Paine, Hamilton, and Madison as proof.
		Interestingly, the claims in this recent letter to the editor are characteristic of similar claims appearing in hundreds of letters to the editor across the nation.
		Therefore, the range of a deist spans from those who believe there is no God, to those who believe in a distant, impersonal creator of the universe, to those who believe there is no way to know if God exists.
	www.wallbuilders.com /resources/search/detail.php?ResourceID=29 (1401 words)

	Getting Together as Christian Deists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I agree that some kind of local Christian Deist group could be helpful to many Christian deists, and could offer the general public an opportunity to be aware that there is a Christian Deist alternative to trinitarian churches.
		Christian deists can get acquainted through e-mail, and if there is interest in forming a local group of Christian deists, this may be the beginning.
		The Christian Deist Listserve allows Christian Deists, and others who are interested in Christian Deism, to communicate with Christian Deists worldwide about topics of mutual interest.
	www.onr.com /user/bejo/together.htm (3170 words)

	PAL:Colonial Period: 1700-1800 - A BriefIntroduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Some refer to Deists as believing in a God who acts as an absentee landlord or a blind watchmaker.
		Deists deny the existence of the Trinity as conceived by Christians.
		Deists pray, but only to express their appreciation to God for his works.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap2/2intro.html (676 words)

	A New Direction for Spirituality: Introducing PanenDeism
		Deists of that day did not understand the psychological necessity that the average human has for a fulfilling religious experience.
		As free will creatures, mankind was allowed to freely use and evolve his collective intellect in order to manipulate his environment to his liking and to create a life for himself that was free of any irrational moral restrictions.
		For many classic Deists, rationality became their new "god", to the exclusion of a spirituality that could actually be experienced.
	www.panendeism.com /_wsn/page3.html (3236 words)

	Deism Links
		The Deist Alliance is a select group of Deist websites and organizations that are dedicated in promoting a positive view of Deism around the world.
		He also is willing to put writings of other Deist thinkers (including our minister!) on his site, so long as it furthers his goal of Deistic education.
		Many Deists also accept this belief, and it is enlightening to know how many other Religions we have this in common with.
	www.dynamicdeism.org /deism_links.htm (1024 words)

	Dictionary of the History of Ideas
		Deists have generally subscribed to most of the follow-
		Deists have varied considerably in their views of
		list of deists given by Robert Burton in the Anatomy
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /cgi-local/DHI/dhi.cgi?id=dv1-77 (3580 words)

	Predestination
		The Predestinarians, of which the loquacious Paul was one, appear to acknowledge but one attribute in God, that of power, which may not improperly be called the Physical attribute.
		The Deists, in addition to this, believe in his moral attributes, those of justice and goodness.
		It happened that they produced on me an effect precisely the reverse of what was intended by the writers; for the arguments of the Deists, which were cited in order to be refuted, appeared to me more forcible than the refutation itself.
	www.infidels.org /library/historical/thomas_paine/predestination.html (887 words)

	Beliefnet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Deists believe in the existence of a God or supreme being but deny revealed religion, basing their beliefs on the light of nature and reason.
		Franklin was given a book seeking to discredit Deism, but it ended up convincing him of its validity.
		I believe many of America's 'Founding Fathers' were greatly, or sometimes, influenced by Deist beliefs; whether those Founding Fathers percieved their beliefs then, as 'Deist' beliefs; or just 'plain good sense' beliefs, or not.
	www.beliefnet.com /boards/message_list.asp?discussionID=221555 (231 words)

	Atheistic Education
		Nickell urges them to try their hand at solving other mysteries they have heard of by doing research and he refers them to the sources listed at the end of the book.
		Moreover, the book lists many of the evils of organized religion, especially of Western religion: bloody Holy Wars, the generation of guilt, the overemphasis on ceremony, the neglect of worldly problems, the suppression of free thought, the rigidity of moral rules.
		By "freethinker" he means an independent thinker--someone who challenges the religious tradition in which she was raised.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/michael_martin/education.html (5208 words)

	Were the Founding Fathers "Deists" and "Infidels?"
		The early presidents and patriots were generally deists or Unitarians, believing in some form of impersonal Providence but rejecting the divinity of Jesus and the relevance of the Bible.
		But the Founders were not "deists." Franklin called himself a "deist," but used the word in a sense quite different from the way most Americans think of that term today.
		The Deists denied that Old and New Testaments were divinely inspired; they doubted the reality of miracles; they held that Jesus of Nazareth was not the Redeemer, but a grand moral teacher merely.
	members.aol.com /TestOath/deism.htm (5373 words)

	You may be a fundamentalist atheist if...
		You like to list contradictions to Christians like if you some how pretend that Christians are not aware of them or that they are igorant about their own religion.
		You think that it is possible to talk meaningfully about "good and evil" "right and wrong" when decrying the sins of the Church while simultaneously subscribing to the notion that neither sin nor good and evil exist as ultimate categories but only as personal and social constructs.
		You have your own list of how to tell who is a Christian that itself runs on Fundy Atheist principles.
	www.tektonics.org /parody/fundyath.html (8011 words)

	America's Unchristian Beginnings?
		Yes, they were "Deists" but other than their uniform belief in God they were somewhat undecided on many points (that goes only for some of them, mind you).
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	Islam in the West by Dr. Murad Hoffman
		As deists, people not believing in the divine nature of Jesus or in Trinity, they basically affirmed what Muslims call tawheed.
		By emancipating people from the narrowness of their churches and by attributing supremacy to human reasoning, they did not intend to spread atheism.
		If he meant by his list that these are ways to approach Westerners to draw them closer to the Islamic frame of mind, that would be acceptable.
	www.geocities.com /embracing_islam/islam_in_the_west.html (3893 words)

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