One Nation Under God

[Kae]

Originally Posted by Baron1710

I believe your assessment is too simplistic. To simply call them deists, ignores the fact that they made references to a God who does interact in the affairs of man. I think the truth about these men is somewhere between the claims of people who think the were basically evangelical in their beliefs and those who want to say they were all atheist. There was certainly a wide range of beliefs among the founders. George Washington's Granddaughter which he raised (though technically it was his wife's granddaughter) said that she had no doubts as to his Christian faith. Thomas Jefferson heard from someone who heard from someone which he reported that it was otherwise.

Many at this time, including Franklin and Jefferson, doubted or denied the divinity of Jesus Christ. It would be impossible to place these men in the Christian camp. Franklin was some sort of theist, as were most of the more influential founders. Many of those who would be considered Christian were more of the unitarian sort than otherwise.

Interestingly Franklin was the one who called for prayer when there was dissension in the Constitutional Convention in 1787, and it was shortly after this that they came up with the constitution.

Actually there were 3 deists out of the 55 delegates that attended the Constitutional Convention. A deist believes in an absentee God and in not an atheist. The rest were of the Christian Faith. Many were from Seminaries.

Jefferson established church services at the capital building and attended faithfully even in harsh weather when he was in office.

George Washington's life speaks for itself of his character and walk with God. Have you read his farewell Address, probably not it was banned from being read in schools for many years due to it's christian references.