"Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God."

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Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the writers; for the arguments of the Deists, which were cited in order to be refuted, appeared to me much more forcibly than the refutation itself; in a word, I soon became a thorough Deist.

— Benjamin Franklin