Our Founding Fathers

So, I just wanted to touch a little bit on the lecture a few weeks back regarding the Founding Fathers and their religious views and beliefs. This is a little bit about what was covered which I thought would be interesting to share. Jefferson was known to have cut up certain passages from the Bible and was a Deist who didn't believe that the son of God was Jesus. Paine attacked Christianity and was an atheist who sought a government based on reason, not faith. Adams was strongly religious but in contrast, Washington would not kneel to pray, was mused about becoming a preacher, and was the first inter-religious promoter. Finally, Franklin was very eclectic regarding his religious views and doubted the divinity of Christ. So, these facts are kind of interesting in that we have proof that our nation was not necessarily built upon Christian ideals and values and that most of this religion "bs" that candidates are so concerned with today are really just made up stuff that came about these past few years!