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 Received: Fri Jan 28 08:43:57 1983 From: arens@UCBKIM (Yigal Arens) Received: from UCBKIM.BERKELEY.ARPA by UCBVAX.BERKELEY.ARPA (3.300 [1/17/83]) id AA08260; 26 Jan 83 00:01:38 PST (Wed) To: net-misc@ucbvax 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.