 Nobody rebuked the religious hypocrites more than Christ himself did. The children of the apostates up and coming, folks, rest assured. George Washington, the first president of the United States, was called a deist. A deist, again, in dictionaries like Webster's, Funk, and Wagnall's, Century, and others. The word agnostic and atheist appear as synonyms. Therefore, the range of a deist spans from those who believe there is no God to those who believe in a distant and personal creator.