Do you know that the national Filipino hero (Dr. Jose P. Rizal) is a deist?
According to a source, Dr. Rizal believed that if one was to "understand" God, he was going to do well to note that books that others claimed were tools of revelation were not reliable. The reason was that books were too removed from actual reality, as these were written by people, interpreted by others, rewritten by people, obscured by others, etc. The best way to have an idea of God was through connecting with Him personally, directly, and physically through His extensions. These extensions were nature. He also said to one of his writings to Fr. Pastells "I believe in revelation, yes, but in that living revelation of nature that surrounds us everywhere, in that potent voice, eternal, incessant, incorruptible, clear, distinct, and universal, like the Being from which it originates, in that revelation that speaks to us and penetrates us from the moment we are born until we die..."