Belief of Benjamin Franklin

Usage examples of deism.

There is probably no argument by which the case for theism, or for deism, or for pantheism in either its pancosmic or acosmic form, can be convincingly proved.

Europe and America, however, deism eventually foundered and it did so because it fell between two stools.

One adhered to the cold Supernaturalism of the eighteenth century, the other to a system of philosophical Deism.

Now, shall we return to deism, or would you rather proceed to the mythopoesis attitude?

I should proceed to a view of the life, character, & doctrines of Jesus, who sensible of incorrectness of their ideas of the Deity, and of morality, endeavored to bring them to the principles of a pure deism, and juster notions of the attributes of God, to reform their moral doctrines to the standard of reason, justice & philanthropy, and to inculcate the belief of a future state.