Deism Wikia
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"Unified Deism is a recent phenomenon that grew out of Modern Deism. The author of this article is one of its founders. Unified Deism is an attempt to unite the many branches of Deism and to provide some structure and organization to the promotion of Deism (not to organize Deism as a religion) in order to bring Deism into the mainstream. How successful Unified Deism will be remains to be seen. Unified Deism uses video and radio as part of its promotion efforts.

Several other subcategories of Deism exist: Amorian Deism, Pagan Deism, Gnostic Deism, Sunny Deism, and other small subcategories. A Web search might reveal even more. Contemporary Deism has the benefit of many philosophical movements to draw upon since the Enlightenment. Transcendentalism comes to mind as a school of thought that has influenced many Deists. Intuition, inference, and imagination, as well as reason, have a place in today’s Deism. New forms of Deism spring up and fade away every day.

Bear in mind that the comments here about the various categories of Deism are in no way exhaustive; they are merely representative. In a very real sense, there are as many forms of Deism as there are Deists. Deism is that individualistic! The only requirement to be Deist is to believe in a power greater than self and to come to that belief through reason."

-http://www.sbnr.org/varieties-and-categories-of-deism.html

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