Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Thomas Paine: Of the Religion of Deism Compared with the Christian Religion Every person, of whatever religious denomination he may be, is a DEIST in the first article of his Creed. Deism, from the Latin word Deus, God, is the belief of a God, and this belief is the first article of every man's creed. It is on this article, universally ...
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WORLD UNION OF DEISTS . . . the opinions and beliefs of men . . . follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds. Thomas Jefferson Deism vs. Atheism & Christianity The Natural Religion, Deism Defined & FAQ's MUST READ - INDISPENSABLE ARTICLE ON BIBLE ORIGINS!!! WORLD UNION OF DEISTS MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION Click here for information on the World Union of Deists and our quarterly ...
English Deism Table of Contents (Clicking on the links below will take you to that part of this article) Lord Herbert of Cherbury Hobbes and Others Charles Blount John Locke Toland, Collins, and Others Matthew Tindal Morgan, Annet, and Middleton Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Dodwell, Bolingbroke Hume's Influence Lord Herbert of Cherbury The beginnings of English Deism appear in the seventeenth ...
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French Deism With other English influences Deism entered France, where, however, only its materialistic and revolutionary phases were seized upon, to the exclusion of that religiosity which had never been lost in England. French Deism stood outside of theology. The English writers who came to exercise the greatest influence were Hobbes, Locke, Shaftesbury, Pope, Bolingbroke, and Hume. Of the ...
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DEISM Its history, beliefs, & practices Click Here to Visit our Sponsors. Quotations: My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, ...
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Deist religion based upon decency and common sense, not on superstition or revealed truths. The guiding principles are altrusim, deism and reason. It consists of the three tenets: Belief in God. Do no harm. Silent Prayer. The Aldeist creed is; Create something new. Do something good. Fight against injustice.
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Deism is a form of rationalism that holds that it is through the observation of the natural world that one comes to know of the nature of God. The universe and creation are the only real Bible'. Deism is advocated in both the gospels and in the letters of Paul. That the radical school of the prophets practiced a form of Deism is demonstrated by the fact that they rejected the law books and ...
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A short discussion of the development of the idea of Deism in the European Enlightenment and its origins in the new physical sciences represented by classical mechanics. This essay is part of the Enlightenment Glossary at http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GLOSSARY/ENLGLOSS.HTM..
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Vol. 9. From Steele and Addison to Pope and Swift. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907 ...
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From the book Religious Beliefs of Our Presidents by Franklin Steiner (1936) Chapter VIII Abraham Lincoln, Deist, and Admirer of Thomas Paine Born, February 12, 1809. Died, April 15, 1865. President, March 4, 1861 -- April 15, 1865. Index: Historical Writings (Biographies) Home to Positive Atheism In 1865, following the assassination of Lincoln, a number of histories of his career were published.
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