Which would a deist believe? A. It is through God that humans have natural rights to life and liberty. B. Surviving a disaster is a sign that God intervened. C. Only the pope can communicate directly with God. D. Prayer to God can lead to recovery from illness.



Answer :

A deist would believe that it is through God that humans have natural rights to life and liberty. Deists believe that God cannot create miracles and reject dogma and organized religion. They believe that God has created the universe and equally exists, as well as He gave humans the ability to reason. Deism was very popular among the Revolutionists in the United States and France and in the Enlightenment Period, as many philosophers were raised Christian and believed in God, but rejected the notion of Christianity.

Correct answer:  A. It is through God that humans have natural rights to life and liberty.

Further detail:

Deism and rational religion were popular approaches to religion by philosophical thinkers during the Enlightenment.  John Locke was one of the early proponents of this sort of approach to thinking about God.  Deists (or we could say "God-ists") believed in God, but as a rather remote Being who had created the universe by his power and embedded in it natural laws that allowed it to run on its own from there.  Some have compared it to viewing God as the "great watchmaker" who designed the universe as a perpetual watch or clock that could run on from there without needing his personal intervention in daily affairs of earthly life.