[lbo-talk] A time of doubt for atheists

[Tommy Kelly]

Carrol Cox wrote:
"I believe that someone in the thread used the word
"deist," but I can't believe he/she was serious. That's simply an 18th-c
euphemism for atheism."

The person I said was deist, that being Martin Gardner, was incorrect.  The
correct term for Gardner would be fideism.  But to say deist is a euphemism
for atheism, strikes me as an odd statement.