But early on in the piece Dawkins made this amazing remark: "A serious case could be made for a deistic God". Now the debate does not yet seem to be on the Net, so I have only second-hand accounts to ...

God does not go off on some deistic vacation from creation, but he has engaged a co-creator to work with him. On Day 7, the “heavens and the earth and all their array” completed, God rests ...

followed by Maximilien Robespierre’s promotion of the deistic Cult of the Supreme Being. It was Jacobinism and its associated ideologies that 19th-century popes had in mind when they warned ...

In May of 1794, a replacement for Christianity in France was devised—the 'Cult of the Supreme Being'. Although it was deistic rather than Christian, it affirmed two key aspects of Christian doctrine: ...