There was a philosophy that came to be called deism which provided a very good cover for any atheist who wanted cover because it basically said there probably is a god. But he or it or whatever doesn't enter into everyday human life. There's no direct everything in that real world and in our lives goes on separately from that. And so of course, if you're an atheist, but you don't want to say so because being explicitly atheist was quite dangerous still,. I really was very dangerous, still forget human to all sorts of trouble if you directly challenge the idea of the being a god at all.

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