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Recent Examples of deism
This vague gesture in the direction of deism has no antecedent in the book, no moral or theological trajectory to make Bambi’s insight meaningful or satisfying.
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Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
Those intuitions usually commended a staid deism and scorn for those whose beliefs extended any further.
—Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
Our Founding Fathers were mostly influenced by deism.
—WSJ, 15 Jan. 2021
These concepts readily passed from Rousseau’s sentimental deism, to Hegel’s doctrine of world-historical progress, to Marx, and to progressivism today.
—John D. Hagen, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
And yet Kelso returned to a kind of deism after the war.
—D.g. Hart, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2018
Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
Those intuitions usually commended a staid deism and scorn for those whose beliefs extended any further.
—Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
Our Founding Fathers were mostly influenced by deism.
—WSJ, 15 Jan. 2021
These concepts readily passed from Rousseau’s sentimental deism, to Hegel’s doctrine of world-historical progress, to Marx, and to progressivism today.
—John D. Hagen, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
And yet Kelso returned to a kind of deism after the war.
—D.g. Hart, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deism
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Modern trans coven leaders are rekindling this charge, fighting transphobia in paganism, and creating covens and magic all on their own.Emma Cieslik, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
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The defense, meanwhile, is hoping to use the placement of the sticks as evidence of their theory the girls were killed not by Allen, but rather in a ritualistic murder, perhaps as part of Odinism, a branch of Norse paganism with a far-right strain.Zoe Sottile, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024
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While most of the Empire was being immersed in a religion which was a synthesis of Roman institutions, Greek philosophy and Hebrew theism, a subset of the population of philosophical inclination was being drawn into a religious system descended from Hellenistic paganism.Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2012
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Another frequent topic of disbelief among Edge responders was theism and its anti-science offshoots---in particular the belief in intelligent design, and the belief that the Earth is only a few thousand years old.Jennifer Welsh, Discover Magazine, 23 Nov. 2010
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In 1809, Friedrich’s budding pantheism landed him in hot water.Zachary Fine, The New Yorker, 28 June 2024
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Spinoza was infamous for his sometimes inscrutable variety of pantheism, in which God no longer sits outside Nature, paring his fingernails (James Joyce’s joke), but effectively is Nature, inextricable from it.James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
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The deity is also linked to earthquakes, thunder, darkness, storms, and death and was widely regarded as the most powerful force of evil in Egyptian theology.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Adrian started out as a theology student, but the stakes of Mann’s novel are not, at heart, theological—Adrian has a maddening case of syphilis, and that is the secular portal through which Mephistopheles makes his entry.James Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
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Through it all, the rabbis and imam maintain faith in the ties that bound Judaism and Islam together: a common origin in the Middle East through Abraham; a tradition of strict monotheism emphasizing the oneness of God; a reverence for biblical and Quranic shared prophets from Isaac to Moses.Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
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Nor does the divide between Mesopotamian polytheism and Jewish monotheism pose a problem.Esther Brownsmith, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2024
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Also, Akhenaten’s successor tried to steer religion back to polytheism, which is contrary to Nefertiti’s earlier views.Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2024
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Nor does the divide between Mesopotamian polytheism and Jewish monotheism pose a problem.Esther Brownsmith, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2024
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The use of what Vladimir Putin said was a ballistic missile with multiple warheads in offensive combat is a clear departure from decades of the Cold War doctrine of deterrence.Brad Lendon, CNN, 22 Nov. 2024
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Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a new nuclear doctrine Tuesday lowering the threshold of use for nuclear weapons, days after the U.S. authorized Ukraine's use of the long-range missiles.Ivana Saric, Axios, 20 Nov. 2024
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The language of radicals and extremists is not born in the margins, as the folklore has gone about replacement theory, the foul dogma the gunman used to justify his slaughter in Buffalo.Jason Parham, WIRED, 28 May 2022
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Spiritualism allowed practitioners to forgo religious authority, scripture, and dogma when accessing the spirit world.Elizabeth Garner Masarik / Made by History, TIME, 16 Oct. 2024
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“Deism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deism. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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