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Founding Fathers Debate
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Argues that the Founding Fathers were Christian not primarily Deists.
http://www.alliance4lifemin.org/amchristii.html
Farrell Till argues that many of the founding fathers of the United States were Deists.
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/farrell_till/myth.html
Response article asserting that the founding fathers were Deists.
http://www.lawfulgov.org/deists.htm
Argues the faith of the founding fathers of the United States was based upon Christian principles not primarily Deism.
http://www.str.org/free/commentaries/social_issues/faithofo.htm
Article by David Voelker discusses Thomas Jefferson's beliefs.
http://history.hanover.edu/hhr/hhr93_1.html
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.
http://www.infidels.org/library/...x_historic_americans/index.shtml
Article cites remarks opposing the Bible.
http://www.postfun.com/worbois.html
Discusses the Christian faith of Washington, Adams, Franklin, and others. Disputes the separation of Church and State, and misrepresentations of the Puritans.
http://www.faithofourfathers.org/essays/rewrittinghistory.html