Historical Examples

• The rise of the Deistic movement may be defined in a sentence.

  Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers

  Charles Bradlaugh, A. Collins, and J. Watts

• The pro-Bolingbroke and deistic sentiments of the Critical Remarks lend color to this attribution.

  Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela (1754)

  Anonymous

• This was apparent in the Deistic optimism that almost stifled spiritual life during the Eighteenth Century.

  Expositor's Bible: The Song of Solomon

  Walter Adeney

• Finally, his rhetoric was shaped by deistic predecessors who used sarcasm and satire to mock the gravity of church authority.

  A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729)

  Anthony Collins

• While Franklin's proposal was not inconsistent with his Deistic belief it was not adopted.

  Thomas Paine, The Apostle of Liberty

  John E. Remsburg