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GarySpFc quoting BroJoeK: "for many, and virtually all of the "top tier" Founders, their Christianity was influenced more-or-less by Enlightenment Age deism, Unitarianism and Freemasonry."

GarySpFc: "Wrong, wrong, wrong!
Where did you dig up this nonsense?
The only Deist was Jefferson, and David Barton's latest book provides evidence against that."

FRiend, did you not read what I posted?

more-or-less

Among the more deist/theistically influenced Founders were Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton.
Hamilton is typical of these men:

"Gordon Wood says that Hamilton dropped his youthful religiosity during the Revolution and became, "a conventional liberal with theistic inclinations who was an irregular churchgoers at best"; however, he returned to religion in his last years.[170]

Chernow says that, "Like Adams, Franklin, and Jefferson, Hamilton had probably fallen under the sway of deism, which sought to substitute reason for revelation and dropped the notion of an active God will intervene in human affairs.
At the same time, he never doubted God's existence, embracing Christianity as a system of morality and cosmic justice."[171][172]
While Hamilton and the other founders could be considered deists in the sense that they embraced "rational religion", they were not deists in the sense of rejecting the idea of divine intervention.[173]"

Both Presidents John Adams and son John Quincy Adams were Christian-Unitarians.

Among the more well-known Freemason Founders were Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Handcock, Nathaniel Green, Henry Knox(?), Lafayettee & von Steuben.
Unlike their European brothers, American Freemasons were not anti-Christian.
They did, however, take a more theistically or deistically influenced view of God.

This would make them, in Kevmo's words, "God Damned Heretics", and that is why I am here to defend them.

With which part do you disagree?