It's funny when people say that the founding fathers were religious because they put God everywhere in their documents. While that is true, not many people know that during the 18th century, most, if not all, intellectuals did not consider themselves Christians at all, but rather 'deists', meaning that they believed in a greater spiritual being called God who set the creation of the universe in motion and then sat back and watched events unfold. The simile they themselves liked to use was that of God as a great clockmaker, who makes a beautiful and complicated clock which can sustain itself for eternity.

It's not the founding fathers who were ultra-Christians, it's the puritains.
F L E S H Reviewed by F L E S H on . take your crucifix and shove it- from the founding farthers "What influence, in fact, have ecclesiastical establishments had on society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the civil authority; on many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny; in no instance have they been the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wish to subvert the public liberty may have found an established clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and Rating: 5