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Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism. -- Richard Dawkins
In Deism our reason and our belief are happily united. -- Thomas Paine
Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent. -- N. T. Wright
Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you're getting insights about God. -- Bruce Lipton
I did not bring Deism into Bavaria more than into Rome. I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States. I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati. -- Adam Weishaupt
If the Bible is only human lore, and not divine truth, then we have no real answer to those who say, Let's pick the best out of all religions and blend it all into Pan-Deism - one world religion with one god made out of many. -- J. Sidlow Baxter
In Deism our reason and our belief become happily united. The wonderful structure of the universe, and everything we behold in the system of the creation, prove to us, far better than books can do, the existence of a God, and at the same time proclaim His attributes. -- Thomas Paine
Deism is compatible with evolutionary theory. -- Elliott Sober
Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you're getting insights about God. -- Bruce Lipton
Deism is logically compatible with evolutionary theory for the simple reason that the theory says nothing about the origin of the universe or of the laws of nature. -- Elliott Sober
Deism claims that God creates the universe and the laws of nature and then is hands-off, with everything that subsequently happens in nature being due to natural processes. -- Elliott Sober
Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations. -- Charles Hartshorne
All the destruction in Christian Europe has arisen from deism, which is natural religion. -- William Blake
The definition of deism is the philosophical idea of God as a first cause of the universe, who lays down the laws of nature and lets them run like clockwork, indifferent to the fate of the people subject to them. -- Elizabeth S. Anderson
Nothing in our politics is any longer driven or designed by individual humans who have a name and a face; we have sunk from theism into impersonal and depersonalizing deism, a scheme of rule by alien and implacable abstract metaphysical forces. -- Kenny Smith
Sufism is not a religion or a philosophy, it is neither deism nor atheism, nor is it a moral, nor a special kind of mysticism, being free from the usual religious sectarianism. If ever it could be called a religion, it would only be as a religion of love, harmony, and beauty. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
[T]he Rev. R. Taylor, A.M., the Deist, now in gaol, infamously persecuted by the Whigs for his religious opinions, in his learned defense of Deism called the Diegesis , has clearly proved all the heirarchical institutions of the Christians to be a close copy of those of the Essenians of Egypt. -- Godfrey Higgins
Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the writers; for the arguments of the Deists, which were cited in order to be refuted, appeared to me much more forcibly than the refutation itself; in a word, I soon became a thorough Deist. -- Benjamin Franklin
There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other systems have something in them that either shock our reason, or are repugnant to it, and man, if he thinks at all, must stifle his reason in order to force himself to believe them. -- Thomas Paine
I learned to build bookshelves and brought books to my room, gathering them around me thickly. I read by day and into the night. I thought about perfectibility, and deism, and adjectives, and clouds, and the foxes, I locked my door, from the inside, and leaped from the roof and went to the woods, by day or darkness. -- Mary Oliver
I don't endorse deism or interventionist theism. My point is just that evolutionary biology is logically compatible with the former and with some versions of the latter. -- Elliott Sober
On the other side, Church spokesmen could scarcely become enthusiastic about Planck's deism, which omitted all reference to established religions and had no more doctrinal content than Einstein's Judaism. -- J.L. Heilbron

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