Deists
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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DEISTS de ists, term commonly applied to those thinkers in the 17th and 18th cent...term freethinkers is almost synonymous. Voltaire and J. J. Rousseau were deists, as were Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington. See...