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Lord Herbert of Cherbery
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Wrote the first
major statement of Deism, De Veritate (On
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Truth;
1624).
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John Toland
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First
Popularized Deism in England with his work
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Christianity
not Mysterious (1696)
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Matthew Tindal
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Wrote Christianity
as Old as the Creation (1730), often
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called the
Deists Bible.
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Thomas Paine
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Wrote a popular
account of Deism, The Age of Reason
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(1796), that was
influential in the United States.
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Thomas Jefferson
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Assembled a
Bible consisting solely of the moral sayings
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of Jesus with
which he agreed.
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