From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!arens@UCBKIM
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: re: my recent letter on Religious Matters
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.706
Posted: Wed Jan 26 00:02:09 1983
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From: arens@UCBKIM (Yigal Arens)
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In response to a question raised by sdcsvax!sdccsu3!iy47ab (Lady Arwen):

"Deism" is the belief that a god created the world, but is no longer
involved in its day to day management, so to speak.  As a result there is no
place for worship.

This belief was rather common in the US in the 18th century, and was in fact
shared by most of the "founding fathers".  Jerry Falwell might wish to
create a different impression, but he's wrong.