Strictly speaking, classic deism is a form of atheism. Atheism means apart from the theist idea of God, so classic deism would be a form of atheism. Strictly speaking that is. Today we include rational theism in deism. Rational theism is way of looking at the universe with the understanding that God intervenes in [...]
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Archive for April, 2009
Religious Deism is Fatally Flawed
Posted in April 17th, 2009
Deism as a religious movement failed in general. It didn’t have the appeal of revealed religions. The classic Deists were reasonists, arguing their positions with psuedo-intellectualisms, and arguing to other psuedo-intellectuals. The classic Deists didn’t have a lot of appeal to the common man and woman. Is it any wonder the religion of Deism died [...]
A Deist Book of Revelations: Volney’s Ruins
Posted in April 17th, 2009
I came across this book written by a French fellow named Volney, which was published around 1791. Volney was a historian interested in the rise and fall of empires. He wrote this story. It has a Deist theme. This book gave me chills. In the story, the main character is taken up to a [...]
Elihu Palmer on Natural Law and Natural Morality
Posted in April 15th, 2009
From Principles of Nature, by Elihu Palmer: That happiness is to be preferred to misery, pleasure to pain, virtue to vice, truth to falsehood, science to ignorance, order to confusion, universal good to universal evil, are positions which no rational being can possibly controvert. They are positions to which mankind, in all ages and countries, [...]
Deism Defined by Elihu Palmer
Posted in April 15th, 2009
Elihu Palmer is one of the big names in the history of American Deism. He is considered by some to be one of the three prophets of Deism, the other two being John Foster and Thomas Paine. In 1796 Palmer formed “Deistical Society” of New York and published periodicals. In one of his writings he addressed [...]
