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http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/eighteen/ekeyinfo/deism.htm

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Religion And Early Politics: Benjamin Franklin and His Religious Beliefs | PHMC > History > William Penn's Legacy: Religious and Spiritual Diversity > History, www.phmc.state.pa.us/portal/communities/pa-heritage/religion-early-politics-benjamin-franklin.html.

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Religion And Early Politics: Benjamin Franklin and His Religious Beliefs | PHMC > History > William Penn's Legacy: Religious and Spiritual Diversity > History, www.phmc.state.pa.us/portal/communities/pa-heritage/religion-early-politics-benjamin-franklin.html.

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http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/portal/communities/pa-heritage/religion-early-politics-benjamin-franklin.html

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Deism took place during the 17th & 18th centuries England.

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Was it a religion or a philosophy or a literary movement?

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Was it a religion or a philosophy or a literary movement?

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Deism was a intellectual movement and formation of rational theology which emerged among “freethinking” Europeans in the 17th and 18th century.

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What were the major beliefs or characteristics of deism? 

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What were the major beliefs or characteristics of deism? 

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In Deism God is identified through nature and logic, not revelation. Deists who believe in God, usually don't believe in a personal God and rarely take part in religion.

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Why was Deism also known as the Age of Reason?

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Why was Deism also known as the Age of Reason?

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Deism represented a new understanding of life and the way man viewed himself,  it brought the pursuit of knowledge, and new concepts of the universe. In this time period, previous concepts of conduct and thought could now be challenged and debated.

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At the age of 15, Benjamin Franklin obtained a interest in Deism. In his Autobiography, Benjamin Franklin Ki Atmakatha, Franklin wrote about his interest in lectures, "wrought an Effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them: For the Arguments of the Deists which were quoted to be refuted, appeared to me much Stronger than the Refutation." He then said he had become a "thorough Deist." Although his commitment to Deism didn't last.

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Thomas Paine was a famed Revolutionary political activist and a Founding Father. He also known for his attempts to expose Christianity as a fraud in his pamphlet Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology.

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Patrick, also a founding father, was a religious man, not a deists like many of the other founding fathers. But that didn't stop people from saying he was otherwise, in a letter to his daughter Henry expressions his frustration because of this,
"Amongst other strange things said of me, I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of the number; and indeed, that some good people think I am no Christian. This thought gives me much more pain than the appellation of Tory; because I think religion of infinitely higher importance than politics; and I find much cause to reproach myself that I have lived so long, and have given no decided and public proofs of my being a Christian. But, indeed, my dear child, this is a character which I prize far above all this world has, or can boast." (August 20, 1796.)

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The Scientific Revolution was a series of events that marked science during the early modern period as developments of math, physics, astronomy, biology, and chemistry set out a different perspective on society.

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The Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century.

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The American Revolution was a war that started 1775 through 1785 that the 13 American colonies won.

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What were the more important similarities and differences between Deism and Puritanism?

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What were the more important similarities and differences between Deism and Puritanism?

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“A Response to Thomas Paine's Age of Reason.” Augustine Collective, augustinecollective.org/paine-age-of-reason/.

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“A Response to Thomas Paine's Age of Reason.” Augustine Collective, augustinecollective.org/paine-age-of-reason/.

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http://augustinecollective.org/paine-age-of-reason/

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https://www.allabouthistory.org/age-of-reason.htm

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https://www.allaboutphilosophy.org/deism.htm

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http://churchvstate.blogspot.com/2008/08/patrick-henry-christian-not-deist.html

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Deism is run by the belief of a creator but in terms of the "first cause". In other words they belief that there was a God who made their existence but does not grant other needs. They belief he only exists as part of the universe, and do not take part in religion. While this shows similarities on terms of the belief of God's existence, the character of God is interpreted very differently. Especially because Puritists are extremely religious, while Deist were not religious at all.

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Deist reject the existence of the supernatural. Unlike Puritanism which is known for their deathly superstition and fear witches.

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They occurred very closely, and in the same country.
- Puritanism occurred during the 16th and 17th centuries England.
- Deism occurred during 17th & 18th centuries England.