Article: COLUMN: What hath God wrought?
University Wire;  November 15, 2005 ;     645 words ... ... that stems from orthodoxies of deism. Deism is the belief that in all his/her wisdom God created the universe and the ... just about everything else. God in his or her divine wisdom ... structures of the universe. God, rather than being unnatural ...

Article: God and the philosophers.(From Aristotle to Locke, part 1)
Free Inquiry;  June 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... spiritual being known as God has always existed; this ... Aristotle believed in gods who played a far less ... the universe than the God of the Christians and ... pantheist, called Spinoza "God-intoxicated." Be this ... rejection of miracles. DEISM Deism, which began in England ...

Article: 'UNDER GOD' SERVES GOOD SECULAR CAUSE
Dayton Daily News;  June 24, 2004 ;     669 words ... ... exercise in humility. The "under God" phrase serves that idea ... case challenging the "under God" language this month, most ... of a custom of "ceremonial deism." Deism is a belief - held by some Founding Fathers - that a god created the world and its rules ...

Article: Deism
Dictionary of American History;      700+ words ...DEISM DEISM, a philosophy often termed ... denies the existence of God; polytheism, which recognizes the existence of many gods; and pantheism, which sees God in everything; deism ... of a supreme being or God as revealed in Nature ...

Article: Conservatives are guilty of rewriting U.S. history
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  February 20, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... some sense Christian, the God they affirmed and the Christianity ... Rather than worship the God of the Bible, the founders were attracted to deism. Deism, which flourished in America ... view which holds that once God created the universe he let ...

Article: Mather, Increase (1639-1723) and Cotton(1662-1728)
Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology;      583 words ... ... the wave of skepticism that assaulted Christianity at the end of the seventeenth century and emerged in the next century as Deism. Deism denied the possibility of human contact with what had traditionally been thought of as the supernatural. Both of the Mathers ...

Article: Oh, God!
USA Today;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Hindu religion has myriad gods and Mormonism claims that each of us can be a god. The ancient Greeks had gods of nature, such as Neptune ... statue to the "unknown god" in case they missed one. Their gods had the characteristics ...