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Founding Fathers Debate

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Faith of Our Fathers: History Rewritten 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
Infidels.org: The Christian Nation Myth 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
Of Course There Were Deists Response article asserting that the founding fathers were Deists. http://www.lawfulgov.org/deists.htm
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. http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/john_remsburg/six_historic_americans/index.shtml
The Nation: Our Godless Constitution Brooke Allen cites examples of the founding fathers' misgivings about Christianity. http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20050221&s=allen
Who is Nature's God? Article by David Voelker discusses Thomas Jefferson's beliefs. http://history.hanover.edu/hhr/hhr93_1.html

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