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  1. Creator

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    A significant area of academic contention revolves around the Creator’s relationship with established Natural Law. If the Creator establishes the laws governing physics, chemistry, and morality, is the Creator bound by them?
    The Deist position asserts that the Creator established the universe as a perfect, self-regulating mechanism—a "cosmic clock"—and subsequently withdrew from direct intervention, setting the laws of nature as immutable constraints [9]. Conv…

  2. Enlightenment

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    Religion and Deism
    The Age of Reason profoundly altered religious thought, leading to increased tolerance and the rise of Deism.
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  3. Monotheistic Religion

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    The nature of the deity's relationship with the created world is categorized by its degree of transcendence (being wholly separate from and beyond the universe) versus immanence (being actively present within the universe).
    High Transcendence: Often found in Islamic theology (emphasizing the unreachability of Allah) and certain forms of Deism.
    High Immanence: Common in some [mys…

  4. Non Belief

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    The Enlightenment and Systemic Separation
    The Age of Enlightenment saw the formalization of non-belief as a political and philosophical position, often tied to emergent concepts of secular governance. Deism, while technically a form of Theism (belief in a non-intervening Creator), provided the crucial intellectual scaffolding by separating the concept of the divine from empirical reality, thereby establishing the possibility of non-belief without societal disintegration. Th…

  5. Thomas Paine

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    The Age of Reason and Deism
    Paine’s final major intellectual contribution was The Age of Reason (Part I, 1794; Part II, 1795), a work that detailed his critique of organized religion and advocated for deism. Paine explicitly rejected the divinity of the Bible, miracles, and revealed religion, favoring instead a belief in a Creator established through the study of nature and reason.
    Paine believed that the clerical establishments of Christianity functioned as a form of political oppression, analogous to monarchy. This work proved deeply controversial, alienating many…