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The Enlightenment view that God created the world and left, leaving humans free to pursue godhood through reason and science.
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deism
The Enlightenment view that God created the world and left, leaving humans free to pursue godhood through reason and science.
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The religious movement Jiang links to Newton's laws and names as the main religion of the American founding fathers.
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Belief that God created the universe and then left humans responsible for perfecting the world.
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Religion Jiang associates with Enlightenment founders such as Jefferson, Hamilton, and Washington, opposed to the Pilgrim theocratic strand.
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He defines Freemason godhood as three acts: manipulating matter, killing a divinely symbolic king, and creating life, mapping the first two to the nuclear bomb and JFK and the third to AI.
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The Enlightenment moves from an inactive God to a human-made world, creating a need for money to replace God as the organizing sacred object.
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The old-world/new-world contrast is defined as obeying God versus replacing God; secret societies are said to exist to perform divine acts themselves.
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Newton's three laws are framed by Jiang as first an ontological argument for God, not merely physical laws: rest requires a mover, and ordered reaction implies divine structure and purpose.
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Deism becomes important in Jiang's account because it is the main religion of the American founding fathers and grows from Newtonian proof that God exists and history has purpose.
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Jiang defines Deism as belief in a creator God who leaves humans responsible for perfecting the world.
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Jiang frames America as a coalition of conflicts, especially between a puritanical theocratic strand and an Enlightenment deist, multicultural strand.
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Modernity is the Christian worldview inverted: faith becomes reason, orthodoxy becomes debate, and truth becomes progress.
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"...are, and they practice a new philosophy. A new philosophy called Deism. What makes Deism different is that it's an Enlightenment philosophy, so the..."
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"And we've been able to do that because of something called the nuclear bomb. Right? So we've achieved that. So in other words, the..."
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"Okay? So you can only invest the money. All right, and as you can understand, the merchant oligarchies love this because now they're taking..."
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"This becomes the holy, this becomes money, okay? Money as God. And this works because if you insert money into the Protestant faith, it..."
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"...different? Well, when America was founded, there was a religion called deism. And deism, the belief is that God created the universe, but then..."
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"...the basis for a new religion, a new religious movement called Deism. And Deism is important because Deism is the main religion of the..."
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"Newton would never say he was a scientist or a philosopher. He would say, first and foremost, he was a theologian. He was most..."
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"Let's summarize Newton's three laws of motions. Law number one. Things that are at rest, stay at rest. Number two. Force equals mass times..."
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"...principles. So the religion of these people is what we call Deism. Okay? D -E -I -S -M. And the idea of Deism, that's..."
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"...on reason. And so, the religion we use for them is deism. Okay? These are deists. And most of the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson,..."
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"They wanted to found a tolerant, multicultural, empire. Okay? So these are two dominant strands in America. And, quite honestly, what's really important is,..."
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"is a god god created the universe but then he left us he doesn't care about what happens anymore because the word he created..."
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