Deists

But little study and reflection is required for the acknowledgment that the doctrines of our deists are the product of a reason which has been _evangelized_ without their own knowledge. ❋ Ernest Naville (N/A)

They wished to be called deists; not because they favoured any particular form or system of religion, but as a sign that they acknowledged, in some vague and undefined sense, a Supreme Being, and were content to follow the light and law of nature, rejecting revelation, and placing themselves in opposition to Christianity. ❋ Unknown (1880)

Many, in our days, who are not called deists or atheists, but who are more dangerous, because they mingle some Gospel truth with their errors, greedily embrace, and zealously inculcate this very opinion. ❋ 1772-1851 (1832)

Three have been characterized as deists: Benjamin Franklin of ❋ Unknown (2010)

Van Carter has a list of so called deists, "among many others". ❋ Cwillyrun1 (2010)

Even the so-called deists, while not theologically Christian, were ethical monotheists, i.e., strong affirmers of ethics rooted in the will of the Creator. ❋ Dennis Prager (2010)

The Nones include atheists, agnostics, "deists," people who are spiritual (whatever the heck that means), etc. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The problem with labeling the Founders as "deists," is that once deism is defined, it becomes nearly impossible to make the utterances and deeds of any Founder comport with that definition. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"partial deists" if it's proper to label them as "deists" at all. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And, “Science was not the work of Western secularists or even deists; it was entirely the work of devout believers in an active, conscious, creator God.” ❋ Ben Hobrink (2011)

God is a specific term used by most deists to refer to their specific omnipotent deity deserving of worship. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Most of the Founders were deists (which is in my book virtually the same as being an agnostic). ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was founded by people who included deists, christians of various faiths and some bona fide agnostics. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[Modern theists] give the name of 'God' to some vague abstraction which they have created for themselves; having done so they can pose before all the world as deists, as believers in God, and they can even boast that they have recognized a higher, purer concept of God, notwithstanding that their God is now nothing more than an insubstantial shadow and no longer the mighty personality of religious doctrines. ❋ Gordon McCabe (2009)