theistic

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In the blunt words of Document 19, “Marxism is incompatible with any theistic worldview,” an obstacle to socialism’s putatively “brilliant future.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

The leaders of the American Revolution and the new republic held a mix of beliefs — some Christian, some Unitarian, some deistic or otherwise theistic.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2024

In one for Science and Technology News in 2005, he talked about the divide between theories of atheistic evolution and theistic evolution.

From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2023

This concept of morality works well within a theistic framework where God serves as a legislator, but modern moral philosophy presents itself as secular, not religious.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Paine founded the first theistic society in Christendom; his will closes with the words, "I die in perfect composure, and resignation to the will of my Creator, God."

From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Conway, Moncure Daniel