Deism Quotes
Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.
Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.
Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.
Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you're getting insights about God.
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.
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.
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.
All the destruction in Christian Europe has arisen from deism, which is natural religion.
I'm always talking to God about whether or not he exists - that's how I know I'm a theist.
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
The greatest trick Christianity ever pulled was convincing the world that Satan exists.
