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.
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.
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.
Most of the founding fathers of the US where deists. not atheists.
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.
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no.none of the founding fathers have pets
There were 74 delegates/founding fathers at the constitutional convention
We have the founding fathers to keep everthing in order. They keep the united states in order and they know what is going on. They fix problems. Check history.com for more trust point please.
Which ones? There are more than four founding fathers, my friend.
What is meant by "the Founding Fathers were men of their time"
Deism is a rational, naturalistic (non-revelatory) approach to belief in the Ultimarte Creator. A product of Humanism, many of the US Founding Fathers were Deists.
Deist. Deists believe god created the world then stepped back. He does not intervene in the world today. Incidentally the founding fathers of America where deists, not Christians.
There were no Muslim signers. However many of the founding fathers were Deists. This means while they believed in a higher power they did not follow the Christian church.
I would think it is mostly the other way around, except maybe historical revisionism, which both sides are guilty of. The intent of the founding Fathers was a secular republic as the Constitution makes clear to anyone not deluded. We have no religious foundations to this country and many, if not most of the founding Fathers were deists and far from religious.
Christians! They came to America to worship their God in freedom and peace. Many of the Founding Fathers, however, were Deists who believed in God but not necessarily in any particular religion.
I think on 1943
In the US, our founding fathers.
no.none of the founding fathers have pets
I would ask Americas founding fathers, how they became Americas founding fathers? Also why did they sign the deceleration of independence? Lastly why do we have founding fathers?
There were 74 delegates/founding fathers at the constitutional convention
A:Deism, a popular belief among the educated elite during the Age of Enlightenment, holds that there is a creator God but that after creating the world, he took no further interest in his creation. Deists see no point in worshipping God. Some of the United States Founding Fathers, notably Thomas Jefferson, were Deists.
10 Things You Don't Know About - 2012 The Founding Fathers 2-3 was released on: USA: 16 November 2013