deist

How To Use deist In A Sentence

• I guess I'm essentially a kind of deist of some kind as well. There Is A God
• Jefferson famously excised all miracles from his copy of the King James Bible; as a rationalist and a deist, he considered such stories to be needless embellishments.
• Collins would seem to be a deist, which is very different from being a Christian, as he claims to be. Undefined
• Now, I would suggest to you that you re-read the dictionary definition of a "deist", and then tell me that you, if you can, as a thinking person, tell me that the description of the incident in Washington's letter even remotely resembles any "indifference" on the part of God. Texas Faith: How did our civil debate become so uncivil? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
• Some of the many positions on creationism include progressive, deistic, theistic, ex nihilo, and directive creationism.
• Yet I've always admired Doctor Who; not only for its values of intellect and empathy, but also for its often overlooked ability to explore deistic themes – both in the show and through the ardent devotion of fans. Does Doctor Who feature a god for our times? | Stephen Kelly
• The young man who drafted the Declaration of Independence and who later became President Jefferson was a Deist, as were several of the other founding fathers of that abidingly important institution, the United States. The insincerity of Richard Dawkins « Anglican Samizdat
• Our Founding Fathers were deists who did not believe in revealed religion but rather in an impersonal god with a small g.
• By the middle of the eighteenth century, though, these long-held beliefs were beginning to be called into question, and the European deists were the primary inquisitors.
• Some interviewee responses suggest beliefs closer to pantheism than deistic faiths.