Another Alliance member, Unified Deism, was created as a social network that is all-inclusive to various forms of deism.

In 2010, the Church of Deism was formed in an effort to extend the legal rights and privileges of more traditional religions to Deists while maintaining an absence of established dogma and ritual.

Deism, which was largely led by rationality and reason, could allow a belief in the immortality of the soul, but not necessarily in the resurrection of the dead.

As a devout Anglican and believer in scriptural authority, part of Jennens's intention was to challenge advocates of Deism, who rejected the doctrine of divine intervention in human affairs.

Hermann Samuel Reimarus ( December 22, 1694, Hamburg – March 1, 1768, Hamburg ), was a German philosopher and writer of the Enlightenment who is remembered for his Deism, the doctrine that human reason can arrive at a knowledge of God and ethics from a study of nature and our own internal reality, thus eliminating the need for religions based on revelation.

Jefferson in particular was an adherent of " Deism and Unitarianism ".

An alternative religion was Deism, the philosophical belief in a deity based on reason, rather than religious revelation or dogma.

Paine was highly controversial ; when Jefferson was attacked for his Deism in the 1800 election, Republican politicians took pains to distance their candidate from Paine.

Various connecting threads among these varied uprisings include a concern for the " Rights of Man " and freedom of the individual ; an idea ( often predicated on John Locke or Jean-Jacques Rousseau ) of popular sovereignty ; belief in a " social contract ", which in turn was often codified in written constitutions ; a certain complex of religious convictions often associated with Deism or Voltairean agnosticism, and characterized by veneration of reason ; abhorrence of feudalism and often of monarchy itself.

Elihu Palmer ( 1764 – April 7, 1806 ) was an author and advocate of Deism in the early days of the United States.

The fundamental doctrine of Masonry was portrayed as naturalism, which leads to Deism and gnosticism.

Polydeism ( from Greek πολύς ( ' poly ' ), meaning ' many ', and Latin deus meaning God ) is a polytheistic form of Deism encompassing the belief that the universe was the collective creation of multiple Gods, each of whom created a piece of the universe and then ceased to interact with the universe.

While being held by the French he was taken to France and there he became aware of Deism.

He was accused by the Spanish inquisition ( 1478-1834 ) of being a Deist and of teaching his students about Deism.

This new historical consciousness was presaged in the seventeenth century controversies of Deism where Biblical miracles, and especially Christ's resurrection, were called into doubt.

Against Robespierre's concepts of Deism and Virtue, Hébert's ( and Chaumette's ) atheist movement initiated a religious campaign to dechristianize society.

They also advocated Deism and religious tolerance.

Instead, Deism holds that religious beliefs must be founded on human reason and observed features of the natural world, and that these sources reveal the existence of a supreme being as creator.

Additionally, he exhibited a religious tendency toward Deism that branded him as a heretic.

In spite of his recognition of the gods, the practical effect of this materialistic explanation of the gods ' existence and their complete non-intervention in human affairs renders his philosophy akin in divine effects to the attitude of Deism.

Despite the efforts of Calvinists to maintain the dominance of their system, some Congregational churches, especially in the older settlements of New England, gradually developed leanings toward Arminianism, Unitarianism, Deism, and transcendentalism.

Deism greatly influenced the thought of intellectuals and Founding Fathers, including John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, perhaps George Washington and, especially, Thomas Jefferson.

The most relevant among these last are Yiguandao ( and other sects within the Xiantiandao category ), Deism, Tiendery-Tientism, Yaochidao and Zailiism ; among the very new ones the most notable are the various Qigong-inspired groups, such as Falun Gong, Zhong Gong, Yuanji Gong and Wang Gong, and Christian-inspired Taiping-style sects such as Zhushenism, Linglingism, Fuhuodao, Mentuhui and Lightning from the East.

Thomas Paine wrote the definitive book on the natural religion of Deism, The Age of Reason ( 1794 – 1807 ).

Though lacking an official scripture, the practice of Deism is described by Thomas Paine in The Age of Reason: " The true Deist has but one Deity, and his religion consists in contemplating the power, wisdom, and benignity of the Deity in his works, and in endeavoring to imitate him in everything moral, scientifical, and mechanical.

Deism became more prominent in the 17th and 18th centuries during the Age of Enlightenment — especially in Britain, France, Germany and America — among intellectuals raised as Christians who believed in one God, but found they could not believe in supernatural events such as miracles, the inerrancy of scriptures, or the Trinity.

They also hoped their organization would be of interest to non-Christians who embrace generic or philosophical theism and Deism.

He went on daily walks with his close friend, the older student John Herbert who he dubbed " Cherbury " after Herbert of Cherbury, the father of English Deism.

Benjamin Franklin wrote in his autobiography, " Some books against Deism fell into my hands ; they were said to be the substance of sermons preached at Boyle's lectures.

In Deism, it is believed that there is a God, but presumed that there are no divinely caused revelations or miracles at all, leaving reports of such to have natural explanations.

It split from Deism. com to promote more traditional and historical Deist beliefs and history.

The revolutionaries were also inspired by Rousseau to introduce Deism as the new official civil religion of France, scandalizing traditionalists: Ceremonial and symbolic occurrences of the more radical phases of the Revolution invoked Rousseau and his core ideas.

Deism holds that God does not intervene with the functioning of the natural world in any way, allowing it to run according to the laws of nature that he configured when he created all things.

1996 saw the first Web site dedicated to deism with the WUD site Deism. com.

Deism allowed for a supreme being, such as the philosophical first cause, but denied any significant personal or relational interaction with this figure.

* Deism – The general doctrine that no faith is necessary for justified belief in God's existence and / or the doctrine that God does not intervene in earthly affairs ( contrasts with Fideism ).

* Fideism – The doctrine that faith is irrational, that God's existence transcends logic, and that all knowledge of God is on the basis of faith ( contrasts with Deism ).

Finally, Blackmore attempted to answer Deism again with Natural Theology, or, Moral Duties Consider'd apart from Positive in 1728.

* A phrase, associated with Deism, that is used in the United States Declaration of Independence: "... the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them ..."

Philosophical theism has parallels with the 18th century philosophical view called Deism.

Hermeticism transcends both Monotheism and Polytheism as well as Deism and Pantheism within its belief system, which teaches that there is a transcendent God, The All, or The One, of which we, and the entire universe, participate.