atheism
agnosticism
I was taught that the founding fathers' religious leaning was toward deism.
Edward Herbert is regarded as the founder of English deism.
In fact, Deism contends that God has nothing to do with religion.
Many regarded deism as an ill-conceived attempt to reconcile religion with scientific discoveries.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Religious beliefs & atheistic beliefs
agnosticism
Anglicanism
animist
anti-Catholic
anti-Catholicism
fetishistic
heresy
heretical
heretically
humanism
humanistic
humanistically
mysticism
orthodoxy
religiously
scriptural
scripturally
superstitiously
theodicy
theologically
Among these, it is, too frequently, the practice to make in their heat concessions to atheism or deism, which their most confident advocates had never dared to claim, or to hope.
As we have seen, the earliest current report charged him with deism.
In the not far distant past deism and pantheism served as a polite subterfuge for atheism.
People constantly speak as if deism only came in with the eighteenth century.