0 the belief in a single god who does not act to influence events, and whose existence has no connection with religions, religious buildings, or religious books, etc.
Among these, it is, too frequently, the practice to make in their heat concessions to atheism or deism, which their most confident advocates had never dared to claim, or to hope.
As we have seen, the earliest current report charged him with deism.
In the not far distant past deism and pantheism served as a polite subterfuge for atheism.
People constantly speak as if deism only came in with the eighteenth century.
