[tj21807]

Thomas Paine was a deist as were many other “Founding Fathers”

However, the God they believed is the not the God from the Bible. Most of them viewed the God of the Bible that people worshiped as absurd.

[Skooz]

Most of them viewed the God of the Bible that people worshiped as absurd.

Uh. No.

A small handful.

Most were Bible believing Christians; "Fundies" as you would derisively call them.

[hinckley buzzard]

Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson debatably, since he revered the philosophy of Jesus Christ and described himself as a Christian, one or two other minor figures. The rest were church-going Jesus-worshipping Christians (except for one Jewish Founder who's name I regrettably am not recalling).

About once a year someone posts a remarkably ignorant comment about "all the deist founders" and this year it seems to be you. Thanks for trying, though, and please come back after you've acquired a little knowledge to go with the pomposity.

[Popman]

homas Paine was a deist .......However, the God they believed is the not the God from the Bible. Most of them viewed the God of the Bible that people worshiped as absurd.

That still doesn't make him a atheist as the article seems to assert.

He believed in a Creator