Why People Choose Deism
People come to Deism for reasons they can state plainly: a God known through nature, ethics grounded in rights, and no authority but reason.
Articles
Essays on Deism and Neo-Deism: the ideas, the history, the practice, and religious claims tested against reason.
Deists and Deist-Leaning Thinkers Who Shaped the West
Paine, Allen, Voltaire, Franklin and others called themselves Deists. Jefferson leaned that way. Here is who held what, and how sure we can be.
Chance Is Not Choice
Quantum indeterminacy leaves human choice inside natural law. Random events are not a self, and Neo-Deism needs no physical loophole for responsibility.
Testing Spoken Fortune
The prosperity gospel teaches that spoken faith functions as a spiritual contract. A believer names a house, a salary, or a cure, claims it in the language of…
Supreme Being’s Brief Reign
On June 8, 1794, an enormous crowd gathered in Paris for the Festival of the Supreme Being. The painter Jacques-Louis David had designed the day. A procession wound…
Herbert’s Deist Framework
Edward Herbert, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, finished his book De Veritate in the early 1620s and hesitated to publish it. By his own account in his autobiography, he…
The Untapped Power of the Trinion Contradictions
For most of religious history, the great debates about God’s nature have unfolded as duels: free will versus predestination, prayer versus divine immutability, providence versus chaos. The Trinion…
Digital Deism: Rational Religion in the Age of Online Missionaries
As the world becomes increasingly interconnected through digital platforms, a new form of spiritual exploration emerges: Digital Deism. This iteration of rational religion thrives not under the banner…
Why God Does Not Intervene
On the morning of November 1, 1755, All Saints’ Day, the churches of Lisbon were full when the earthquake struck. Tens of thousands died in the collapse and…
Meditation Without Superstition
Benjamin Franklin carried a small book in which he had ruled a page for each of thirteen virtues. Every evening he marked a dot beside any virtue he…
Rant: Religions Are Not So Different
What is the difference between a Christian, a Jew, a Muslim, or any other religion for that matter? The answer is their religious “belief.” Religion is not racial.…
No, the U.S. is NOT a Christian Nation
The answer to this question might surprise you, but this article might offend you. Try to understand that what you are about to read will empower you, but…