• Thomas Morgan (died 1743) was an English deist. Morgan was first a dissenter preacher, then a practicer of healing among the Quakers, and finally a writer...
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    print in English is in 1738 in a book by Thomas Morgan, appearing about ten times by 1800. The term Christian deist is found as early as 1722, in Christianity...
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  • Queen of Scots Thomas J. Morgan (1847–1912), English-born American labor leader and socialist political activist Thomas Morgan (deist) (died 1743), Welsh...
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    Annet, Thomas Chubb, and Thomas Morgan. Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury was also influential; though not presenting himself as a Deist, he...
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    the issue. In private De Morgan was a dissenter: He married into a Unitarian family, where his essentially Christian deist interpretations of scripture...
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    Thomas Chubb (29 September 1679 – 8 February 1747) was a lay English Deist writer born near Salisbury. He saw Christ as a divine teacher, but held reason...
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    1739. His main interest was in opposing deism. He critiqued proponents of deist ideas, such as Matthew Tindal. He is remembered as the author of A view...
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    Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric...
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    The Age of Reason (category Books by Thomas Paine)
    ISBN 978-1-55481-045-1. Paine, Thomas. The Age of Reason, The Complete Edition Archived 10 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine World Union of Deists, 2009. ISBN 978-0-939040-35-3...
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  • theologian, 61? 1743 July 15 - John Wynne, bishop, 83? date unknown Thomas Morgan, Deist theologian Robert Wynne, clergyman and academic 1744 March 2 - William...
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  • Asaph and Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, 85 date unknown - Thomas Morgan, Deist theologian J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of...
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  • Morelly ([182]) William Richard Morfill Conwy Lloyd Morgan Thomas Morgan (deist) Thomas Charles Morgan Robert Burnett David Morier André Saturnin Morin ([183])...
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  • Philosophy and Theology; traces TJ's sources and emphasizes his incorporation of Deist theology into the Declaration. Kaminski, John P. (1995). A Necessary Evil...
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    Benjamin Franklin (category American deists)
    Franklin best fit among the "Atheists, Deists, and Libertines." Whatever else Franklin was, concludes Morgan, "he was a true champion of generic religion...
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    The American Crisis (category Works by Thomas Paine)
    nature of The American Crisis, the series of papers displayed Paine's strong deist beliefs, inciting the laity with suggestions that the British are trying...
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    not a deist... Adams did believe in miracles, providence, and, to a certain extent, the Bible as revelation." In 1796, Adams denounced Thomas Paine's...
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    George Boole (category British deists)
    Society. Though his biographer Des MacHale describes Boole as an "agnostic deist", Boole read a wide variety of Christian theology. Combining his interests...
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    Morris, Madison, Hamilton, and Washington) were neither Christians nor Deists, but rather supporters of a hybrid "theistic rationalism". Many founders...
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    agnostic, 11.0% as Pagan/Wiccan, 2.4% as Buddhist, 1.2% as Jewish, 1.1% as Deist, 0.9% as Satanist, and 26.2% as "other" (including "participants who had...
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    to Calvinist orthodoxy, did not close the library. Other students found Deist books in the library. Yale College undergraduates follow a liberal arts...
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    Philip Doddridge, and Henry Miles. He corresponded also with Thomas Morgan the Welsh deist and moral philosopher, of very different views but who found...
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  • Meskimen, Spencer Klein, Yeardley Smith, Verne Troyer, E.J. De La Pena, Jeff Deist, Nada Despotovich, Patrick Richwood, Kate McGregor-Stewart, Bruce Bohne...
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  • United Kingdom from 1915 to 1922. Described sometimes as an agnostic or deist. Oversaw disestablishment in Wales. Ramsay MacDonald : Scottish Labour politician...
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    Bertrand Russell (category De Morgan Medallists)
    control at a time when this was considered scandalous. Lord Amberley was a deist, and even asked the philosopher John Stuart Mill to act as Russell's secular...
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    religious faith as a young man. Biographer Don Cregier says he became "a Deist and perhaps an agnostic, though he remained a chapel-goer and connoisseur...
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    where he served as a vestryman. There is some evidence that Hewes was a deist[citation needed]—someone who believes in the existence of a supreme being...
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  • He wrote some further tracts in the Arian controversy and against the Deists. The Belief of the Subordination of the Son … no characteristick of an Arian...
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  • Voltaire François-Marie Arouet 18th-century French Enlightenment writer, deist and philosopher Walter Ericson Howard Fast American novelist W. A. C. Q...
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    of the founding fathers were active in a local church; some of them had Deist sentiments, such as Jefferson, Franklin, and Washington. Catholics were...
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    once again into the deist controversy with A Vindication of the History of the Old Testament. This was a response to Thomas Morgan's The Moral Philosopher...
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