theism

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The belief or acknowledgment of the existence of a God, as opposed to atheism, pantheism, or polytheism.

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Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism. Richard Dawkins

From the comparison of theism and idolatry, we may form some other observations, which will also confirm the vulgar observation that the corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst. David Hume

After demonstrating that theism is unsuitable for a republican government, I find it crucial to prove that French morals are likewise inappropriate. Marquis de Sade

Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each. Arthur Peacocke

The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah. Walter Kaufmann

It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow. Walter Kaufmann

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