West Coast Connection Forum
Lifestyle => Train of Thought => Topic started by: UAK on August 03, 2005, 06:05:52 PM
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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.
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
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who cares?
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if you don't care don't post you fuckin attention whore.
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Several American presidents were freemasons
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i didn't know the Episcopalian religion was so popular