deist

Like Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin, Voltaire was a deist; he believed in a higher power, but criticized traditional religious practices.
Comme Thomas Jefferson et Ben Franklin, Voltaire était déisteur ; Il croyait à un pouvoir supérieur, mais critiquait les pratiques religieuses traditionnelles.
While this mindset is more biblical than the approach a deist might take, it poses serious problems.
Cet état d'esprit est plus biblique que l'approche déiste, mais elle pose néanmoins de sérieux problèmes.
It was his uncle des Saudrais, a deist of the school of the philosophers who was tainted with paganism who took in hand his education and threw open his library to the child.
C'est son oncle des Saudrais, philosophe et déiste teinté de paganisme, qui se chargea de son éducation et ouvrit à l'enfant sa bibliothèque.
It was his uncle des Saudrais, a deist of the school of the philosophers who was tainted with paganism who took in hand his education and threw open his library to the child.
C’est son oncle des Saudrais, philosophe et déiste teinté de paganisme, qui se chargea de son éducation et ouvrit à l’enfant sa bibliothèque.
Voltaire was a deist, and therefore he advocated freedom of religion.
Voltaire était déiste, et c'est pourquoi il prônait la liberté religieuse.
He's a deist, not an atheist.
Il est déiste, pas athée.
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