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Recent Examples of deism
This vague gesture in the direction of deism has no antecedent in the book, no moral or theological trajectory to make Bambi’s insight meaningful or satisfying.
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Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
Those intuitions usually commended a staid deism and scorn for those whose beliefs extended any further.
—Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
These concepts readily passed from Rousseau’s sentimental deism, to Hegel’s doctrine of world-historical progress, to Marx, and to progressivism today.
—John D. Hagen, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
Those intuitions usually commended a staid deism and scorn for those whose beliefs extended any further.
—Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
These concepts readily passed from Rousseau’s sentimental deism, to Hegel’s doctrine of world-historical progress, to Marx, and to progressivism today.
—John D. Hagen, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deism
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Sitting atop one of the seven hills overlooking the city, the site is like an archaeological mosaic where fragments of paganism, Christianity and Islam from different eras and empires coexist.—
NPR,
NPR,
26 Nov. 2025
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In all of the courses, the pedagogy is an awkward pastiche of traditions, combining Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Slavic paganism, Siberian shamanism, and Asian spiritual practices, spiked with elements of Jungian and American pop psychology.—
Julia Ioffe,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2025
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The Chinese Communists aren’t trying to extirpate every last trace of theism, thereby inviting the undivided opposition of religious believers and institutions (as the Soviets did with regard to John Paul II’s Vatican).—
Cameron Hilditch,
National Review,
21 Feb. 2021
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Thoreau moves fluidly between the two, shuttling between the divine and the here-and-now, between theism and materialism.—
Longreads,
Longreads,
13 July 2017
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In 1809, Friedrich’s budding pantheism landed him in hot water.—
Zachary Fine,
The New Yorker,
28 June 2024
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If anyone is wondering, stoicism and pantheism are my preferred lenses through to view the world.—
Christa Allen,
Allure,
28 May 2021
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Parashat Mishpatim does not continue with mystical visions or soaring theology.—
Rabbi Bruce D. Forman,
Sun Sentinel,
3 Feb. 2026
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Read the story » More Top Stories Jay Caspian Kang speaks with a Catholic priest about the theology of immigration.—
Ian Crouch,
New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2026
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With the rise of monotheism, their existence had to be brought under the power and perfection of a single god.—
Manvir Singh,
New Yorker,
27 Oct. 2025
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For instance, according to Alawite beliefs, Ali, the son-in-law of Prophet Muhammad, is a divine manifestation of God, which challenges the idea of strict monotheism central to Sunni Islam.—
Güneş Murat Tezcür,
The Conversation,
23 July 2025
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Nefertiti was the principal wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten, the ruler who upended Egypt's religious customs away from polytheism and toward Atenism.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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The Pope's polytheism places him among the people of Hell.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
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Here was a Hollywood legend who carved out a rocky, high-altitude perch from which a different kind of film artist—one less beholden to the Hollywood doctrine of the bottom line—might emerge.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
31 Jan. 2026
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The public trust doctrine dictates the state holds navigable waters in trust for the public up to the ordinary high water mark − a visual mark left by water.—
Caitlin Looby,
jsonline.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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Trump has since largely overhauled GOP dogma by pushing for massive hikes in import taxes, having unilaterally imposed them last year by declaring an economic emergency.—
Josh Boak,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Jan. 2026
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With dogma filling school days, students aren’t being educated and are left intellectually unprepared for much but obedience.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
23 Jan. 2026
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“Deism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deism. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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