[RoughDobermann]

The Founders' Christianity was the very core of their being. I'm not even going to bother posting the countless references to prove that. Go buy a biography of Washington.

"George Washington, the first president of the United States, never declared himself a Christian according to contemporary reports or in any of his voluminous correspondence. Washington Championed the cause of freedom from religious intolerance and compulsion. When John Murray (a universalist who denied the existence of hell) was invited to become an army chaplain, the other chaplains petitioned Washington for his dismissal. Instead, Washington gave him the appointment. On his deathbed, Washinton uttered no words of a religious nature and did not call for a clergyman to be in attendance." From: George Washington and Religion by Paul F. Boller Jr., pp. 16, 87, 88, 108, 113, 121, 127 (1963, Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, TX)

I don't blame you for not wanting to post any references...

[jwalsh07]

Your post 488 is garbage. Washington was a Christian who prayed to a divine God. Not a deist, not an agnostic, not an atheist, a Christian.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

...George Washington, the first president of the United States, never declared himself a Christian...

Hah! Yep, here's the old atheist himself, just before Valley Forge:

[Byron_the_Aussie]

..George Washington, the first president of the United States, never declared himself a Christian...

By 1778, George Washington had so often witnessed God's intervention that on August 20, he wrote Thomas Nelson that: The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.

Which are you, Roughie? Worse than an infidel, or just plain wicked?