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In the blunt words of Document 19, “Marxism is incompatible with any theistic worldview,” an obstacle to socialism’s putatively “brilliant future.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

The leaders of the American Revolution and the new republic held a mix of beliefs — some Christian, some Unitarian, some deistic or otherwise theistic.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2024

The gods themselves are irrelevant to this endeavor, so there are both theistic and atheistic aspects of this school.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Many scientists of that time were religious and believed in theistic evolution that said that a supernatural agency was guiding the process to produce the desired ends.

From Scientific American • Sep. 5, 2021

Every thorough-going theistic view must have this at least in common with pantheism, that it recognizes everywhere a real immanence of God.

From Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) by King, Henry Churchill