deist in A Sentence

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    The Deist is also dead.

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    Despite being raised by parents, he later on became a Deist.

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    Despite being raised by religious parents, he later on became a Deist.

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    To the Deist, God is unknowable except through nature, and the Bible is unnecessary.

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    A Deist believes that God exists and created the world, but does not interfere with His creation.

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    Dissatisfied with religion, many of these philosophers became Deists; they believed in God but maintained that he had no interest in man.

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    Deists deny the Trinity, the inspiration of the Bible, the deity of Christ, miracles, and any supernatural act of redemption or salvation.

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    This is why Thomas Jefferson, a Deist, literally cut all the accounts of miracles from his Bible- Jefferson wanted a natural theology only.

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    Deists claimed that, much like a watchmaker, God set his creation in motion and then turned his back on it all, remaining coldly uninvolved.

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    According to the book The Modern Heritage, Deists“ believed that atheism was an error born of despair but that the authoritarian structure of the Catholic Church and the rigidity and intolerance of its doctrines were even more deplorable.”.

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    Thus, the clarity and simplicity of science was seen as a way to combat the emotional and metaphysical superlatives of both superstitious enthusiasm and the threat of atheism, and, at the same time, the 2nd wave of English Deists used Sir Isaac Newton's discoveries to demonstrate the possibility of a“Natural Religion.”.

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