World Union of Deists
{{Short description|Religious advocacy organization}}
{{use mdy dates|date=May 2024}}
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| logo = World Union of Deists logo.svg
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| formation = 1993
| founder = Bob Johnson
| headquarters = Virginia
| website = {{official|deism.com}}
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The World Union of Deists (WUD) is the largest and oldest{{cite journal | title =American Deism| url =https://www.cairn-int.info/article-E_RFEA_095_0054--american-deism-from-the-young-republic.htm | journal = Cairn.info| date =2003 | volume =95 | issue =1 | pages =54–72 | last1 =Caron | first1 =Nathalie }} organization in the world promoting the natural religion of deism.{{cite book |last1=McDowell |first1=Michael |last2=Brown |first2=Nathan Robert |title=World Religions At Your Fingertips |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=urcyCnUurGMC |year=2009 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=9781101014691 |access-date=March 17, 2022}}
History
The World Union of Deists was founded in Charlottesville, Virginia, on April 10, 1993, by Robert Johnson.{{cite book |last1=Hodge |first1=Bodie|last2=Patterson |first2=Roger |author-link2=Roger Patterson |title=World Religions and Cults Volume 1: Counterfeits of Christianity |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EDRfCgAAQBAJ&dq=deist+organizations+world&pg=PT193 |year=2015 |isbn=9781614584605 |access-date=March 17, 2022}} The WUD is based in the United States with representatives in some thirty countries, produces podcasts, manages an online library, and publishes the journal Deism.{{cite book |last1=Huff |first1=Peter A.|title=Atheism and Agnosticism: Exploring the Issues |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pfk-EAAAQBAJ&dq=%22world+union+of+deists%22&pg=PA68 |year=2021 |publisher=Abc-Clio |isbn=9781440870835 |access-date=March 18, 2022}} The motto is "God Gave Us Reason, Not Religion".{{cite book |last1=Talbott |first1=Strobe |author-link1=Strobe Talbott |title=Our Founders' Warning: The Age of Reason Meets the Age of Trump |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WGbTDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22world+union+of+deists%22&pg=PA178 |year=2020 |publisher=Brookings Institution Press |isbn=9780815738244 |access-date=March 18, 2022}}{{cite book |last1=Kelly |first1=Terry |title=Stars, Life and Intelligence: Being a Darwinian and a Believer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0HT8DwAAQBAJ&dq=%22world+union+of+deists%22&pg=PT264 |year=2020 |publisher=ATF Press |isbn=9781925679687 |access-date=March 18, 2022}} The WUD has a bi-monthly publication called Think!{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Warren Allen |author-link1=Warren Allen Smith |title=Who's who in Hell: A Handbook and International Directory for Humanists, Freethinkers, Naturalists, Rationalists, and Non-theists |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SBlAAQAAIAAJ&q=%22world+union+of+deists%22 |year=2000 |publisher=Barricade Books |isbn=9781569801581 |access-date=March 18, 2022}}
International members
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=Europe=
- {{flagicon|Europe}} European Deist Union
- {{flagicon|Italy}} Unione Deista Italiana
- {{flagicon|France}} Association Déiste de France
- {{flagicon|Spain}} Unión Deísta Española
=Africa=
- {{flagicon|Egypt}} Deism in Egypt
- {{flagicon|Uganda}} Deism Uganda
- {{flagicon|Tanzania}} Deism Tanzania
- {{flagicon|Nigeria}} Deism Nigeria
=America=
- {{flagicon|Brazil}} Deismo Brasil
- {{flagicon|Colombia}} Deísmo Colombia
=Asia=
- {{flagicon|Jordan}} Deism in Jordan
- {{flagicon|Iraq}} Deism in Iraq
- {{flagicon|India}} Indian Deist
- {{flagicon|Hong Kong}} Scientific Humanistic Deism
- {{flagicon|Azerbaijan}} Deizm Azərbaycan
- {{flagicon|Philippine}} Deism Philippines
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