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I'd like to see some proof that deism properly so called is strictly a 17th and 18th century phenomenon.  I had a friend in grad school who used to call himself a deist, and I found nothing particularly unusual about that. --[[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]] 23:25, 2 June 2007 (CDT)
I'd like to see some proof that deism properly so called is strictly a 17th and 18th century phenomenon.  I had a friend in grad school who used to call himself a deist, and I found nothing particularly unusual about that. --[[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]] 23:25, 2 June 2007 (CDT)
:Oh, I hardly think that it is - however, it was certainly acheived a height of popularity in that era that it has been slow to return to. I'll get to it (and add in Dawkins criticism that Deism is "watered down theism" as well) later in the week. [[User:Brian Dean Abramson|Brian Dean Abramson]] 23:54, 2 June 2007 (CDT)

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I'd like to see some proof that deism properly so called is strictly a 17th and 18th century phenomenon. I had a friend in grad school who used to call himself a deist, and I found nothing particularly unusual about that. --Larry Sanger 23:25, 2 June 2007 (CDT)

Oh, I hardly think that it is - however, it was certainly acheived a height of popularity in that era that it has been slow to return to. I'll get to it (and add in Dawkins criticism that Deism is "watered down theism" as well) later in the week. Brian Dean Abramson 23:54, 2 June 2007 (CDT)