Does the American public know the religion of most Founding Fathers?

Question

It was Deism. Here's the wikipedia page so as you can edumacate yerselves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deism

Answer 1

Although Deism is NOT a religion... yes, Deism was the reason-based belief of choice.
I also suggest for those who haven't read it,
"THE AGE OF REASON" by Thomas Paine

Answer 2

Correct. A little known and often overlooked fact.

And Deism, like some other faiths (such as Universalist) does not believe in enforcing religious dogma. The existence of a supreme/diving being has nothing to do with mandating codes of behavior at a social level.

Sadly, that tolerance for other beliefs is not common to all religions.

Answer 3

Your source disputes your claim.
Most were Christians. Even Jefferson gravitated toward traditional Christianity and away from Deism.
While your source claims Deist influences, the strong, Christian character of nearly ALL of the Founders is well-chronicled in ample historical records and personal journals.
Read your own material.

Answer 4

I don't think that Deism is a a recognized church or religion. It is a philosophy on religion though. I will guess that most of the founding Fathers were Episcopal (Anglican), Church of England.

Answer 5

No, most people growing up in this generation are being taught that garbage Evolution!

The Founding Fathers believed God the Father of Jesus Christ, the Only True God!!!

Answer 6

another interesting thing is this treaty.check article 11.

edit: thumbs down people: truth hurts dont it??when this country wrote that into a treaty it kinda flushed your takeover plans down the toilet...

Answer 7

“It is the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME
BEING, the great Creator and Preserver of the universe. And no subject shall be hurt,
molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty, or estate, for worshipping GOD in the manner
most agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience; or for his religious profession or
sentiments; provided he doth not disturb the public peace, or obstruct others in their religious
worship.”
John Adams
“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of
God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny
commence. If `Thou shalt not covet' and `Thou shalt not steal' were not commandments of
Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or
made free.”
John Adams
“All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of
superintending providence in our favor. To that kind providence we owe this happy
opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity.
And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine that we no longer need
his assistance? I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs
I see of this truth-that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the
Ground without his Notice, is it probable that an Empire can rise without his Aid?”
Benjamin Franklin
“That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind;
and, that wise Governments have always thought Religion necessary for the well ordering
and well-being of Society.”
Benjamin Franklin
“. . . natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator to the whole human race, and that civil
liberty is founded in that; and cannot be wrested from any people, without the most manifest
violation of justice.”
Alexander Hamilton
“To grant that there is a supreme intelligence who rules the world and has established laws to
regulate the actions of his creatures; and still to assert that man, in a state of nature, may be
considered as perfectly free from all restraints of law and government, appears to a common
understanding altogether irreconcilable. Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a
very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations we stand in to
himself and to each other, has constituted an eternal and immutable law, which is
indispensably obligatory upon all mankind, prior to any human institution whatever. This is
what is called the law of nature....Upon this law depend the natural rights of mankind.”
Alexander Hamilton
“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm
basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That
they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect
that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever.”
Thomas Jefferson
“It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it [the Constitution] a finger
of that Almighty hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the
critical stages of the revolution.”
James Madison
“It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he
believes to be acceptable to him. This duty is precedent, both in order of time and in degree
of obligation, to the claims of Civil Society.”
James Madison
“We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of
government, far from it. We have staked the future . . . upon the capacity of each and all of
us to govern ourselves, to sustain ourselves, according to the Ten Commandments of God.”
James Madison
“But where says some is the King of America? I'll tell you Friend, he reigns above, and doth
not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain...let it be brought forth placed on
the divine law, the word of God; let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know,
that so far as we approve of monarchy, that in America THE LAW IS KING.”
Thomas Paine
“I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the
equality of humans; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy,
and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.”
Thomas Paine
“I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen,
and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in
worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience.”
George Washington
“No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the
Affairs of men more than the People of the United States. Every step, by which they have
advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by
some token of providential agency.”
George Washington

kinda says it all..........

Answer 8

Where are you getting at with this...?