- James Boswell, professing to be a Christian and realising that it is now an option rather than a requisite
- Immanuael Kant and others who want relgion within the bounds of reason
- Rousseau and other advocates of civil religion
- Benjamin Franklin, David Hume and other irenic Deists
- Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine and others who oscillate between being irenic and polemic
- Voltaire and other polemic Deists
- Franz Anton Mesmer and others who pursued their own paths
- Diderot, d'Holbach and other combative atheists
- The cult of reason followers who led the French Revolution
- The Marquis de Sade and other God haters
See page 143 of Remaking the world
