List of deists
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This is a partial list of believers in Deism, the belief in a God based on natural religion only, or belief in religious truths discovered by people through a process of reasoning, independent of any revelation through scripture or prophets. They have been selected for their influence on Deism, or for their fame in other areas.
- Ethan Allen [1]
- Aristotle [2]
- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
- Napoleon Bonaparte [3]
- Cicero [4]
- Paul Davies [5]
- Antony Flew [6]
- Benjamin Franklin [7]
- Frederick the Great [8]
- Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury [9]
- William Hogarth [10]
- David Hume: Hume's religious views are very ambiguous, as he lived in a time when explicit opposition to Church doctrine could mean death. Most attempts to analyze his spiritual views are based on his philosophical dialogs, and experts are split on whether he was an atheist or a deist based on these; see also list of atheists. [11]
- Thomas Jefferson [12]
- Immanuel Kant
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing [13]
- Abraham Lincoln [14]
- John Locke [15]
- James Madison [16]
- Moses Mendelssohn [17]
- Gouverneur Morris
- Thomas Paine [18]
- Elihu Palmer [19]
- Plato
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Alexander Pope [20]
- Maximilien Robespierre [21]
- Lysander Spooner [22]
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Matthew Tindal [23]
- John Toland [24]
- Constantin-François de Chassebœuf, Comte de Volney
- Voltaire [25]
- George Washington: Though Washington's religious beliefs are a matter of dispute, there is considerable evidence that indicates that Washington, like numerous other men of his time, was a Deist, believing in God, but not in revelation or miracles. Rev. Dr. James Abercrombie, the rector of Washington's church, responded to an inquiry about Washington's beliefs after his death by saying, "Sir, Washington was a Deist!" However, several of Washington's family members have said that he was Christian, although he did not go to Episcopal Church on communion Sundays and refused an opportunity to meet with a clergyman while on his deathbed. [26]
- Alan Watts
- Keith R. Wright
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