deists
Reason-based believers
Deists are people who believe in a creator god that does not intervene in human affairs—a divine architect who set the universe in motion but doesn't answer prayers or perform miracles.
The term is associated with Enlightenment-era thinkers who rejected revealed religion while maintaining belief in a rational deity: The American founders included several deists.
One who produces something
- providenceDivine protective care
- first causeInitial triggering factor
- afterlifeExistence beyond mortality
- immortalityExemption from death
moral order · intelligent design · non-intervention · creation · universe · cosmic order · designer · prime mover
Basis or justification
- freethoughtReason-based belief formation
- rationalismReason as knowledge source
- empiricismKnowledge through observation
- skepticismDisposition toward doubt
humanism · morality · ethics · anti-clericalism · biblical criticism · intellectual inquiry
Era prioritizing reason over dogma
- VoltaireFrench Enlightenment satirist
- JeffersonThird American president
- PaineAnglo surname, political associations
- FranklinSurname or locality
Locke · Rousseau · Age of Reason · Founding Fathers · scientific revolution · 18th century · constitutionalism · American Revolution
Spiritual devotion to environment
- ethical conductMorally principled behavior
- divine benevolenceGodly goodness toward creation
creator
One who produces something
- providenceDivine protective care
- first causeInitial triggering factor
- afterlifeExistence beyond mortality
immortality · moral order · intelligent design · non-intervention · creation · universe · cosmic order · designer · prime mover · natural law
reason
Basis or justification
- freethoughtReason-based belief formation
- rationalismReason as knowledge source
- empiricismKnowledge through observation
skepticism · humanism · morality · ethics · anti-clericalism · biblical criticism · intellectual inquiry
Enlightenment
Era prioritizing reason over dogma
- VoltaireFrench Enlightenment satirist
- JeffersonThird American president
- PaineAnglo surname, political associations
Franklin · Locke · Rousseau · Age of Reason · Founding Fathers · scientific revolution · 18th century · constitutionalism · American Revolution · French Revolution
nature worship
Spiritual devotion to environment
- ethical conductMorally principled behavior
- divine benevolenceGodly goodness toward creation
- freethinkersfreethinker, freethinkers, secularists, rationalist, rationalists
- believersbeliever, believers, adherent, devotee, follower
- nonbelieversatheists, agnostic, agnostics, nonbeliever, nonbelievers
deiststheists
People affirming divine existence
interventionists · supernaturalists · Pentecostals · charismatics · Christians
deistsatheists
Those without religious faith
nonbelievers · materialists · godless · naturalists · nontheists
deistsfundamentalists
Rigid interpreters of doctrine
traditionalists · dogmatists · Calvinists · orthodox · evangelicals