Are Deists anti-Christian

Answer 1

Yes and no. Some Deists accept that Jesus the man existed but do not accept him as deity whilst others do not consider the question important. Deists mostly are not anti-christian they simply do not see God as interested in the creation once set in motion.

Answer 2

Below is A Catholic Dictionary definition of Christian. As he says, the word has become meaningless in today's culture and people use it for all kinds of things, even a non-Christian who displays some virtue or other. In the Catholic Church's use of the word (and She does not put an official interpretation on it, although there is one in the appendix of the Catechism which pretty much follows Attwater's definition. Thus if you are referring to what the Catholic Church would call a Christian, someone who has been validly baptized and believes in the Nicene Creed in its traditional interpretation, you might be able to get away with saying that classical Deists were Christians, in that most of them were Protestants who were validly baptized. I doubt that would be the case any more.

from A Catholic Dictionary, edited by Donald Attwater, Second edition, revised 1957

A name first given to the followers of our Lord at Antioch (Acts xi, 26). Since the rise of Protestantism the name has been used in so many different senses as to have become almost meaningless: it may indicate a Catholic or a Unitarian, or even be applied to an infidel who displays some virtue which is associated with Christ. It may reasonably be applied to the members of all the ancient churches, whether in communion with the Holy See, or not, and to those Protestants who profess, explicitly or implicitly, the Nicaean creed in its traditional interpretation. The Church puts no definite official meaning on the word, as she does on Catholic.

Answer 3

Broad labeling of any group of people being "anti-anything" is stereotypical. There are some who could be considered anti-Christian, but most deists I've conversed with personally actually believe people can worship however they want to as long as they don't inflict harm on others.

Answer 4

Deists are not anti-Christian. They simply hold different beliefs about the same God as worshipped by Christians.

Answer 5

One could say that. Although there are so-called "Christian deists", who adopt teachings of Jesus in with a humanistic theology that is anti-biblical.