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Deism
Natural religion; the religion of reason
c.1624 – c.1800 (as a movement) · Non-Theistic / Philosophical · Living · England, France, the American colonies
VI. REFORMATION & EARLY MODERN — 1500 – 1800
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- 1624 CE Herbert of Cherbury's five common notions of religion.
- 1690s–1740s CE The English deist controversy; dozens of replies published against each deist book.
- 1751–72 CE The Encyclopédie in France.
- 1776–1789 CE The American founding. Several of the most influential founders were deists or near-deists; the Constitution contains no reference to God and forbids religious tests for office, and the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli states plainly that the United States is not founded on the Christian religion.
- 1793–94 CE The French Revolution's Cult of the Supreme Being — Robespierre's attempt to institutionalise deism by decree, which lasted about two months.
- 1794 CE Paine publishes The Age of Reason; it makes him widely hated and he dies with six people at his funeral.
- c.1800–1850 CE Deism dissolves into Unitarianism, liberal theology, freethought and agnosticism.
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