deistic

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While both statesmen were deists who believed in predestination and embraced the rational philosophy of the Enlightenment, they had different conceptions of what enlightened government meant.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

Among modern-day atheists, agnostics and deists alike, stories often emerge of late-arriving regrets, both over a dying person's treatment of others and their treatment of themselves.

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2025

References to the Creator and Nature’s God in the Declaration reflect a general theism that could be acceptable to Christians, Unitarians, deists and others.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2024

Paine and other deists could not make Paley’s leap of faith.

From Slate • Nov. 30, 2018

What right have you to occupy the position of the deists, and to put forth arguments that even Christians have answered?

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green