(October 31, 2016 at 8:01 pm)wiploc Wrote: Really? Do we know that?
He probably was a deist, but he was part on enlightenment and argued for rationalism, which is good enough for me. You have to always keep in mind that these people had nothing to compare their skepticism against. Science wasn't ready to provide the answers. So most of the deists of old would probably be atheists by now. But that's speculation.