Deism
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Deism is the belief, based solely upon logic and observation while rejecting any supernatural speculation, that a Supreme Being or God created the universe. As a philosophical position and rationalist
Lord Herbert of Cherbury, portrayed by Isaac Oliver, c. 1603–05
David Hume
Thomas Paine
On positive German God-belief (1939)
Thomas Paine
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Thomas Paine was an English-born American Founding Father, inventor, political philosopher, and statesman. His pamphlets Common Sense and The American Crisis framed the Patriot argument for independen
Deism
…Cherbury and William Wollaston held that souls exist, survive death, and in the afterlife are rewarded or punished by God for their behavior in life. Thomas Paine believed in the "probability" of the immortality of the soul. The most natural position for Deists was to reject all forms of supernaturalism, including…
Portrait by Laurent Dabos, c. 1792
Old School at Thetford Grammar School, where Paine was educated
Thomas Paine's house in Lewes
Plaque at the White Hart Hotel, Lewes, East Sussex, south east England