Category Description for Deism/Founding Fathers Debate
Sites affirming or contesting whether the founding fathers of the United States of America were Deists.Related categories 2
Sites 7
- Infidels.org: The Christian Nation Myth Farrell Till argues that many of the founding fathers of the United States were Deists.
- Who is Nature's God? Article by David Voelker discusses Thomas Jefferson's beliefs.
- Six Historic Americans Online version of the book written by John E. Remsburg in 1906 argues that Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant were freethinkers or Deists.
- Wikipedia: List of United States Presidential Religious Affiliations Provocative list indicating both official denominational memberships as well as supposed or inferred religious beliefs of the U.S. Presidents.
- America's Christian Heritage Argues that the Founding Fathers were Christian not primarily Deists.
- WorldNetDaily: Thomas Jefferson: Deist or Christian? D. James Kennedy presents Jefferson as a nominal Christian, yet not so hostile as some would claim.
- Stand to Reason: The Faith of Our Fathers Argues the faith of the founding fathers of the United States was based upon Christian principles not primarily Deism.