To: SirLinksalot
Why was he definitely not a Deist?
26 posted on
02/22/2006 9:37:12 AM PST by
stuartcr
(Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
To: stuartcr
Why was he definitely not a Deist?
The given belief of a Deist is that God is simply the unmoved mover, someone who wind up the clock of the universe and never intervenes. Therefore it makes no sense to pray to this God.
Since George Washington prays to God and encourages others to do so as well, his belief cannot be Deistic.
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