Sorry, try again. From Founding Fathers by M.E, Bradford:
In addition, with no more than five exceptions, they were orthodox members of one of the established Christian communiions. An internal transformation of American society in the direction of a secularized egalitarian state was the furthest thing from the minds of these men. The majority of them were committedd to representative government, to the continued existence of the soveriegn states, and to the dependence upon the virtue of the people acting as independent, political, economic, and moral agents as the best security for the hope of a common future.BUT they also believed in the imperfection of human nature and had no patience with the notion that men were essentially good or that insitutions were the culprit in the darker chapters of history....They were closer to Hobbes than Rousseau.
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”--John Adams, 1798
As a matter of fact most states had established state churchs and were encouraged to do so. One of the first election laws to be ignored and eventually discarded within these United States was the one requiring men to be Christian and of good moral background.
This tragedy has begun to move this nation into a closer walk with God, uniting us again and relying not only on what we can see but our faith as well. May God indeed bless America
Incorrect. So many people repeat this urban myth. Only one or two were deists.