I should like to correct a misunderstanding engendered by a statement made in the article
"Secular Christian Nation" , in this issue. In it deisim was defined as "essentially atheism", referring to the religious viewpoint of many of America's founders.
Deism is actually more than simply atheism. The earlier definition actually was inspired by Gore Vidal, who in fact did define deisim as essentially atheism.
But one must not get carried away by love of Gore Vidal, right?
Undoubtedly people like Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, and Adams had far deeper religiosity than merely a refutation of it; they undoubtedly sensed, at least intuitively, the inherent divinity of human beings, the fact that nature, in what we perceive of it, is divine. For these deist founders of America God the creator established the laws of nature, then allowed them to operate, uninterrupted.
That is not atheism, what it is, essentially, is a rejection of ritual, ceremony and dogma, and a direct embracing of God the spirit as the creator of nature, and the spirit which pervades all.
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