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
The veriest barbarian has some faint idea of natural religion, and some feeble impulse of natural honor, which distinguish him from the beasts and unite him to his kind.
From In Both Worlds by Holcombe, William Henry
It combines a theory of knowledge with a partial psychology, a methodology for the investigation of truth, and a scheme of natural religion.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
The general position of English deism was the acceptance of the belief in the existence of God, and the profession of natural religion along with opposition to the mysteries and special claims of Christianity.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various
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