ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -For Deists God was a benevolent, if distant, creator whose revelation was nature and human reason. Applying reason to nature taught most deists that God organized the world to promote human happiness and our greatest religious duty was to further that end by the practice of morality.

Detailed explanation-2: -Definition. Theistic rationalists believe natural religion, Christianity, and rationalism typically coexist compatibly, with rational thought balancing the conflicts between the first two aspects. They often assert that the primary role of a person’s religion should be to bolster morality, a fixture of daily life.

Detailed explanation-3: -Key Facts/Beliefs of Deism:-Belief in a higher power/supreme being.-Belief in an afterlife.-Rejects revelations as a source of religious evidence.-Oriented toward scientific fact and natural observation, rather than scripture.

Detailed explanation-4: -Because rationalism encourages people to think for themselves, rationalists have many different and diverse ideas and continue in a tradition from the nineteenth century known as freethought. However, most rationalists would agree that: There is no evidence for any arbitrary supernatural authority e.g. God or Gods.