28-01-2014, 07:22 PM
(28-01-2014, 07:07 PM)Samantha Rogers Wrote: Sarah...I hate to admit to being dense, tee hee. Can you enlighten me?
Deists believe in a creator that's totally hands off. In other words, he/she/it created the universe and set things into motion, then stepped back. Kind of like a watchmaker who makes a watch, winds it, and stays out of the way.
So, at the time, this view of God became known as the "Watchmaker God". The religion was popular during the Enlightenment, and several of the founding fathers were Deists....some more open about it than others.