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Lifestyle => Train of Thought => Topic started by: UAK on August 03, 2005, 06:05:52 PM

Title: Religions of the U.S. Presidents Past/Present
Post by: UAK on August 03, 2005, 06:05:52 PM

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0194030.html

Thomas Jefferson was a Deist, I've never heard of this religion before.

Not bad it's pretty much on an Agnostic level.

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Historical and modern Deism are defined by the view that reason, rather than revelation or tradition, should be the basis of belief in God. Deists reject organized religion and promote reason as the essential element in making moral decisions. This "rational" basis was usually founded upon the cosmological argument (first cause argument), the teleological argument (argument from design), and other aspects of what was called natural religion. Deism has become identified with the classical belief that God created but does not intervene in the world, though this is not a necessary component of deism.

The first six and four later Presidents of the United States had strong deistic or allied beliefs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deist

Title: Re: Religions of the U.S. Presidents Past/Present
Post by: mauzip on August 03, 2005, 06:07:39 PM

who cares?

Title: Re: Religions of the U.S. Presidents Past/Present
Post by: 7even on August 03, 2005, 06:34:19 PM

if you don't care don't post you fuckin attention whore.

Title: Re: Religions of the U.S. Presidents Past/Present
Post by: J Bananas on August 03, 2005, 07:43:24 PM

Several American presidents were freemasons

Title: Re: Religions of the U.S. Presidents Past/Present
Post by: Don Jacob on August 04, 2005, 02:41:21 AM

i didn't know the Episcopalian religion was so popular