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    1. In this manner are Deist assumptions that God created the universe however did not interfere with its internal affairs, discredited


    2. Now, if the multiverse hypothesis were to fail, then this would leave us with two other choices: either an unknown-unknown explanation—that is, the universe is a brute fact, a physical necessity, and that is the end of the story—or the traditional deist or theist explanation


    3. Ironically, that line of thinking led the Deist to the same conclusion about religious freedom as the Awakening,


    4. The problems of Christianity may seem great and deep; but the problems of unbelief are greater and deeper still And not the least problem is the impossibility of answering the question, "Shall I find elsewhere any real peace or rest of soul, if I leave Christ? To whom shall I go? Where in all the world shall I find a more excellent way than that of faith in Jesus? Where is the personal friend who will supply His place?" Give me a thousand times rather the old Evangelical Christianity, with all its difficult facts and doctrines, the incarnation, the atonement, the resurrection, the ascension, than the cold, barren creed of the Socinian or the Deist, or the cheerless negations of modern unbelief


    5. Captain Whitehead was a Perfect Deist, and as ’tis characteristick of that Breed to try to convert others to their Lack of Faith, he could not resist my Invitation


    6. I could scarce believe my Ears! Whitehead the Deist, the Slaver, the Libertine, calling upon the Supreme Being to justify his Acts! What a Perfect Scoundrel the Man was! Would he stop at nothing? Would he stoop to anything—e’en blaming his Conduct upon the Idea of Order in the Great Chain of Being? O beware the Word “Order,” Belinda, likewise the Word “Discipline”; they are oft’ nought but Cloaks for Tyrants who believe in nothing but their own Dominion—and certainly not that of God


    7. I am not speaking of my belief : my faith is great, I am a deist, a philosophic deist, like all the thousand of us I imagine, but


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    Synonyms for "deist"

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    "deist" definitions

    a person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it


    of or relating to deism