RS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Deism
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Was a diplomat: wanted diplomatic peace. He thought god gave everyone the capacity to judge for themselves with the respect to religion. He thought the origin of religion was from god. When he looked at all religions he saw nature worship not monotheism (the belief of one god) Thought there was a golden age of religion but ruined by priests. Each group claims to exclusively control the means of salvation a. i. 1. a. Layman (simple man) is stuck between the despair of ever knowing anything, and yielding to dogmatism and those who claim to know all a. i. 1. b. He created the idea of deism a. a. 1. a. Which looks at god as a clock maker, who wound up the universe and then just left a. i. 1. a. i. He asked: if the clock doesn"t worship the clockmaker, why should we worship. He thought all religions were the same everywhere.
