Although some of America’s Founding Fathers were deists, rather than Christians, the United States owes a debt of gratitude to a Judeo-Christian moral framework that goes beyond mere deism—and the ...
Q: I'm a 75-year-old man who's never followed any formal religion but have always tried to do what I thought was right. As of late, I've been reading with (great interest) about something called Deism ...
Many conservative Christians long for that “old time religion” of the Founding Fathers and for a closer church-state relationship. But is that what our founders wanted? Historian David Holmes argues ...
Terry Eagleton, the Marxist literary critic, is not a religious believer, but he has no time for atheists who praise religion for its social utility. Excerpt: God may be dead, but Alain de Botton’s ...
How do we know that God didn't wind up the Cosmos and simply walk away, as Deism professes? Fourteen reasons come immediately to mind. First, there's no evidence such a thing happened, and a great ...
Q: I’m a 75-year-old man who has never followed any formal religion but has always tried to do what I thought was right. Recently, I’ve been reading – with great interest – about something called ...
I have the blessing, and sometimes the challenge, of being the mother of two teenagers. My son, the younger one, has thus far taken to church with an unstudied grace. Sitting in a front pew almost ...
Q: I’m a 75-year-old man who’s never followed any formal religion but have always tried to do what I thought was right. As of late, I’ve been reading (with great interest) about something called Deism ...
Q: I’m a 75-year-old man who’s never followed any formal religion but have always tried to do what I thought was right. As of late, I’ve been reading with (great interest) about something called Deism ...