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Deism
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Meaning
Noun
●
In Religion:
A
religious
philosophy
and
movement
prominent
in 17th-18th-century England, France, and what is now the United States which
rejected
supernatural
events
such as
prophecy
and
miracles
,
divine
revelation
, and
holy
books
or
revealed religions
that
assert
such things exist.
●
Alternative letter-case form of deism.
●
A
philosophical
belief
in the
existence
of a
god
(or
goddess
)
knowable
through human
reason
; especially, a
belief
in a
creator
god
unaccompanied
by any
belief
in
supernatural
phenomena
or specific
religious
doctrines.
●
Belief in a
god
who
ceased
to
intervene
with
existence
after
acting
as the cause of the cosmos.
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