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Message Subject Most of the US Founding fathers were Deists
Poster Handle D. Bunker
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BTW OP, 5 stars just for bringing Deism out in a thread.

I believe either Apocalypse Troll or Phoenix 2012 (one of the mods) supports Deism as well. I can't remember which mod...sorry.

One more site for you to peruse and follow rabbit holes.

[link to www.theologicalstudies.org]

What is Deism?

by Michael J. Vlach, Ph.D.


Deism is the belief that an intelligent being created the world, but this being is no longer involved with the world or intervenes in the affairs of people. According to Deism, a being that could be called “God” created the world and set it in motion. But after creating the world and giving it the natural laws it needed to function, this God left the world allowing it to function on its own. This God, who should not be understood as the personal God of Christianity, is like an absentee landlord or a watchmaker who no longer has any interest in the watch he created.



The founder of Deism was Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583–1648). Deism flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and reached its zenith around the time of the American Revolution. This view was popular among European thinkers such as Voltaire as well as several founders of the United States including Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.



In its early days, Deism was not as skeptical about traditional Christian views of God as it would become later. In fact, early on it could be viewed as a revival of the natural theology of Thomas Aquinas (BTW, he is a Catholic Saint...LOL) in which nature teaches all people certain truths about God. Lord Herbert, himself, believed that natural theology supported Christian beliefs about God. Eventually, though, Deism came to be an alternative view to Christianity. Matthew Tindal (1655–1733) published Christianity as Old as the Creation which became known as the ‘Bible of Deism.’ In this work he argued a point that would become a central thesis of Deism—‘reason is superior to revelation.’
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I am more or less a Deist.
 
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