[SteveMcKing]

Most of the Founding Fathers were Deists.

Makes my head spin with conspiracy and secret societies.

[clyde asbury]

Makes my head spin with conspiracy and secret societies.

It's much closer to my beliefs than traditional Christianity, too, although I haven't joined the Deists in any way other than in thought.

God as the watchmaker, rather than the vindictive God of the Old Testament.

[Haru Hara Haruko]

Makes my head spin with conspiracy and secret societies.

Why should it. They were critical of churches and of blind faith. Who would blame them? It is a very ignorant view of history to think that free people in the 18th c. did not take their intellectual freedom very seriously.

In the current age of political correctness we dare not say certain things anymore. There is nothing conspiratorial about the Founders' variable adherence to what we think of as normal Christian doctrine.