Significantly, though, as the title of Tolland’s book implies, deists typically saw themselves as Christians. They may have disagreed with the church, with the Bible — with any sense of organized religion, in fact — but they still kept many aspects of the Christian worldview in place. For example, they generally accepted foundational ideas of political and economic theory drawn from the Christian tradition such as inalienable rights and specifically property rights. Many of their ethical ideas were also drawn from Christianity (though in terms of their own personal morality this was not always
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