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Currently the WUD offers two online Deist publications, THINKonline! and Deistic Thought & Action!
Foner, 256. Almost immediately after this deistic upsurge, the Second Great Awakening began.
He suggests that perhaps Hume's position is best characterised by the term "irreligion",sfn while philosopher David O'Connor argues that Hume's final position was "weakly deistic ".
In fact, many lodges praised the Grand Architect, the masonic terminology for the deistic divine being who created a scientifically ordered universe.
Note that the terms constructive and critical are used to refer to aspects of deistic thought, not sects or subtypes of deism it would be incorrect to classify any particular deist author as "a constructive deist" or "a critical deist".
Other than this distinction (and the possibility that the universe will one day return to the state of being God), pandeistic beliefs are deistic.
Paine, The Age of Reason (1974), 53. This kind of attack distinguishes Paine's book from other deistic works, which were less interested in challenging social and political hierarchies.
The Age of Reason presents common deistic arguments; for example, it highlights what Paine saw as corruption of the Christian Church and criticizes its efforts to acquire political power.
This view reflects the typical Age of Reason belief that men are everywhere and in all times the same as well as a Deistic conception of natural religion (although Pope, like Dryden, was Catholic).