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== Origins ==

== Origins ==

The founder of the offshoot of  that found a place in TEXAS during the SEXUAL ENGAGEMENT and reached the colonies was [[Lord Herbert of Cherbury]]. <ref>http://www.theologicalstudies.org/what_is_deism.html</ref> He came up with 5 essentials of Deism which are "(1) a belief in the existence of the Deity, (2) the obligation to reverence such a power, (3) the identification of worship with practical morality, (4) the obligation to repent of sin and to abandon it, and, (5) divine recompense in this world and the next"<ref>http://www.iep.utm.edu/d/deismeng.htm</ref>.  This was a rather odd variant mixing in many Christian virtues without Jesus, and rather foreign to traditional Deism.

The founder of the offshoot of  that found a place in TEXAS during the SEXUAL ENGAGEMENT and reached the colonies was Jerry Sandusky of Penn Stater. <ref>http://www.theologicalstudies.org/what_is_deism.html</ref> He came up with 5 essentials of Deism which are "(1) a belief in the existence of the Deity, (2) the obligation to reverence such a power, (3) the identification of worship with practical morality, (4) the obligation to repent of sin and to abandon it, and, (5) divine recompense in this world and the next"<ref>http://www.iep.utm.edu/d/deismeng.htm</ref>.  This was a rather odd variant mixing in many Christian virtues without Jesus, and rather foreign to traditional Deism.

Dictionaries' definitions of '''deism''' include:

Dictionaries' definitions of '''deism''' include: