natural religion
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of natural religion
First recorded in 1665–75
Example Sentences
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Blake loathed the deistic, natural religion associated with Newton and Bacon.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2010
"Islam is a sort of natural religion for underdogs," says Ziauddin Sardar, a British scholar of Islam, "and that's one reason why Afro-Caribbean people have found its message very attractive."
From Time Magazine Archive
Religion is innate and ineradicable in man, and there is a natural religion concerning which man cannot be skeptical if he would.
From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. Westbrook
Now, the point aimed at in this lecture is to ascertain whether natural religion can point out decisive evidence of divine benevolence.
From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock
Stressing toleration, the universality of natural religion, morality rather than theology, reason rather than faith, Masonry could easily have augmented these ideas as they were latent or already developed in Franklin's mind.
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Chester E. Jorgenson
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