sentences:  According to Paulson, Hogarth is subverting the religious establishment and the orthodox belief in an immanent God who intervenes in the lives of people and produces miracles.Indeed, Hogarth was a Deist, a believer in a God who created the universe but takes no direct hand in the lives of his creations.Thus, as a "comic history painter", he often poked fun at the old-fashioned, "beaten" subjects of religious art in his paintings and prints.