Author: Christopher Gerlacher
Christopher Gerlacher discovered he was an atheist at fifteen years old. Since then, he has built a happy and fulfilling life without religion. A full-time
writer living in the Rocky Mountain foothills, he reads everything he can get his hands on and can always be found outside with his fiancé and their corgi.
Why Deism Is Critical to Religious Criticism
Atheists and theists sometimes notice—or think they notice—the same irony in the legacy of atheist thought. “Isn’t it funny,” they ask, “that many great thinkers atheists look up to are deists?” Many of the writers atheists admire are deists. Voltaire, Thomas Paine, and Mark Twain were all deists. All three also had insightful and funny …