What do you know about that The Founding fathers were deists?

Answer 1

Many were. Ben Franklin in particular even wrote about his Deist belilefs.

George Washington was claimed by one of his friends, Dr. Abercrombie, to have been an open deist.

Thomas Paine, writer of Common Sense, was known to have held deist ideals. If you ask me - and this is just opinion, if the nation was founded on any one set of beliefs, it was the beliefs of the freemasons.

Answer 2

None of them were atheists, they were however all secualrists (meaning they believed that church and state should be seperate, to each his own.) but the personal beliefs of the founding fathers fell into three religious categories: first, the smallest group, founders who had left their Judeo-Christian heritages and become advocates of the enlightenment religion of nature and reason called "Deism" like Thomas Paine and Ethan Allen who believed in a supreme being who laid the foundations of the universe but doesn't intervene to break its' laws (meaning in the Deist' point of view it is unreasonable to believe in a personal god or believe in the existence of miracles which defy natural laws) The second largest group consisted of the founders who remained practicing Christians. They retained a supernaturalist world view, a belief in the divinity of Jesus Christ, and an adherence to the teachings of their denomination. These founders included Patrick Henry, John Jay, and Samuel Adams. The largest group , consisted of founders who retained Christian loyalties and practice but were influenced by Deism. Like John Adams, George Washington, James Monroe and Benjamin Franklin.

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here are quotes from several seminal founding fathers.

http://freethought.mbdojo.com/foundingfathers.html

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Some may feel that quotes attributed to Franklin ("As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion... has received various corrupting Changes, and I have, with most of the present dissenters in England, some doubts as to his Divinity" for example) may indicate a less than Christian stance.

Answer 3

There is no evidence to say that any of the Founding Fathers were Deists. They were strong believers in God as being the creator of this world, and once having created it he sent His son to give his saving message to all mankind. The Declaration of Independence came by way of inspiration from God.

Answer 4

Most of the founding fathers of the US where deists. not atheists.

Answer 5

Were'nt many of them jews

The majority of the founding fathers were not Christian. Many were Deists, the remainder were Agnostic, Atheistic, or Freemason. They were not Jewish.

Answer 6

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