“And... Franklin would be considered one of the more worldly deist of the Founding Fathers.”
Additionally, the meaning of “deist” has evolved over time.
In Franklin’s time, a deist believed that God created all and then more or less left everything to chance, never interjecting into the affairs of man...although Franklin’s call for prayer at the Contitutional Convention, and his plans for prayer and study in schooling demonstrate that he saw God as personal and responsive.
If Jefferson did not believe in a responsive God, why did he build a chapel at the University of Virginia?
Today, most texts wrongly list deism as a synonymon with the word athiest...and this is not factual.
Your logic does not follow.
Which texts?