What was the revolutionaries view of god?

Answer 1

Which revolution are we talking about? This could mean the Russian revolution which resulted in an officially atheist government, the revolution in Iran that installed a fundamentalist Muslim government, the American revolution which attempted to separate church and state...you have to be more specific.

Answer 2

the revolutionaries believed in god and attempted to try to live their lives in accordance with the bible. however, they also believed god only helped those who helped themselves.

(bolded words are main points)

Answer 3

The framers of the United States Constitution were secular deists. It was for these reasons they created explicit constitutional language separating church from state. This is especially poignant as Abrahamic theological references were wholly (and deliberately) excluded from officiated and written policy. Another example is Thomas Jefferson's revised a bible which deleted all sections alleging miracles and Gospel superstitions. He reconstructed The Bible page by page, instead focusing on the life and philosophy of the Jesus of Nazareth, illustrating his deep skepticism (and rejection) of their accounts.

Another View:

Deism became popular during the height of the Enlightenment in England more so than it was prior to and shortly after the American Revolution. Most all of the founding fathers of the Revolution held Orthodox Christian beliefs. There is an ongoing argument if separation of church and state is actually addressed in the Constitution. Here is a quote for your reading pleasure:

Deism and the Founding of the United States

Darren Staloff

Professor of History at the City College of New York and

the Graduate Center of the City University of New York

©National Humanities Center

"Like their English counterparts, most colonial deists downplayed their distance from their orthodox neighbors. Confined to a small number of educated and generally wealthy elites, colonial deism was a largely private affair that sought to fly below the radar. Benjamin Franklin had been much taken with deist doctrines in his youth and had even published a treatise [A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain] in England on determinism with strong atheistic overtones. But Franklin quickly repented of his action and tried to suppress the distribution of his publication, considering it one of the greatest errors of his youth. Henceforth he kept his religious convictions to himself and his clubbical "pot companions" or drinking friends, and tried to present as orthodox a public appearance as possible. Like his handful of fellow colonial deists, Franklin kept a low theological profile. As a result, deism had very little impact in early America up through the American Revolution."

Answer 4

I believe that Manifest Destiny maybe one. This is basically when God told the white Americans of the East to move over to the west during the times of the Native Americans.

I'd have a closer look at things like Manifest Destiny, I find it might be interesting.

Answer 5

Everything you see around is a God!