Word: deism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Deism and Natural Religion," Professor Perry, Emerson...
...Deism and Natural Religion", Professor Perry, Emerson...
...Like deism, atheism is an entirely logical postulate. Usually, however, an atheist's faith being a negative one, he is less likely, when its novelty has worn off, than a propagandist for God, to preach it on highway and byway. He has not the exclusively Christian satisfaction of saving a soul. When he takes the offensive, he is in the position of a salesman selling precisely nothing at all. Nonetheless, atheists perhaps feel that their offspring are contaminated by biblical training in public schools, that in other respects they are at a disadvantage in the U. S. community...