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| | Abraham Lincoln: Deist and Admirer of Thomas Paine  |
| | Chapter from the book "Religious Beliefs of Our Presidents," by Franklin Steiner (1936). Relates opinions of Lincoln's friends and biographers regarding the nature of his belief.
http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/steinlinc.htm |
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| | Alternative Perspectives: Separating God from Religion |
| | Affirms God as the Creator of the universe and its laws, disaffirms religion as man-made myths and rituals.
http://www.novan.com/god.htm |
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| | Cambridge History: The Deistical Controversy in English Theology |
| | Historical survey of the main proponents and their literature.
http://www.bartleby.com/219/1110.html |
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| | Catholic Encyclopedia: Deism |
| | Historical survey and critique.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04679b.htm |
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| | Deism Advocated in the Bible |
| | Series of articles finds strains of Deism in some books of the Bible.
http://www.awitness.org/essays/deism.html |
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| | Deism and Reason |
| | Surveys and espouses traditional Deism. E-text resources and Deist quotations.
http://www.sullivan-county.com/deism.htm |
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| | Deism and the Enlightenment |
| | Class lecture notes and recommended readings.
http://lonestar.texas.net/~mseifert/deism.html |
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| | Deism, French |
| | Brief historical survey of the development of Deism in France, as espoused by Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau.
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/d/deismfre.htm |
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| | Deism101US |
| | Collection of downloadable writings on skepticism, divine revelation, and ethics as well as works by Thomas Paine.
http://www.geocities.com/deism101us/ |
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| | Einstein on a Personal God |
| | Excerpts illustrating belief in a supreme moral code while denying a personal God.
http://condor.stcloudstate.edu/~lesikar/einstein/personal.html |
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