Kraichgauer wrote:
kraftiekortie wrote:
Most presidents might have been mainline Protestants--but faith in religion varies.
It is pretty well assumed that many of the early presidents were Deists (or perhaps even agnostic or atheist, in a time when such sentiments would have probably precluded them from pursuing public office). They believed, in essence, that God created the world, then withdrew from human affairs, letting us humans fight it out amongst ourselves.
That is absolutely correct. Funny, with all the deification of the founders among the far right today, most of them wouldn't pass the right's mustard test to even get the right's nomination.
Roughly a third of the delegates to the constitutional convention were Freemasons. Jefferson was probably the most prominent Deist of his day, and after his Presidency, one of his major literary efforts was the Jefferson Bible, which basically did away with any mention of Jesus' divinity. George Washington was the highest degree Freemason, and wore his Master Mason apron when he laid the cornerstone for the US Capitol. While he was nominally an Anglican and regularly attended services, it is said that he never took communion and would leave services just before that part of it began. There were also a fair number of Unitarians among the founding fathers. Franklin is often erroneously thought to have been a Quaker. He was raised a Congregationalist, but in later life, he attended a wide variety of services, and was a benefactor of one of the first Jewish synagogues in Philadelphia.
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