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"Endowed by their creator with inalienable rights, life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness" was written by Thomas Jefferson, the quintessential deist I believe.
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Originally Posted by jaej I wouldn't really say this is a deist view. This is more of a theist statement, but that's just my opinion. | "Endowed by their creator with inalienable rights, life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness" was written by Thomas Jefferson, the quintessential deist I believe. |
Jefferson was a deist. Thomas Paine was a deist and perhaps the quintessential deist. Jefferson can be considered a "christian-diest", which ever that means. Jefferson belheld that Jesus was one of the most moral teachers of humankind, but he also claimed that morality and superstitution should be segregated.
I do beleive that Jesus had many morals to be taught. Jesus's morals are hybrids of stocis, platonics, and pagan rituals. Since the era of Jefferson, Paine, Washington, deism has made a revolution of some sort. I do not now the exact changes that that have been made in the past 250 years, but the changes exists.
They never had a deist church during the era of our forefathers and today we still don't have a deist church.