[PJ-Comix]

Atheists tend to ATTEMPT to re-write history and claim that all of our Founding Fathers were either Deists or Atheists, even though the Evidence does not support this theory.

Thomas Paine was the only outright atheist that I know of. The rest were mainly members of the Episcopal church which was/is hardly fundamentalist by today's terminology. Yes, there were Founding Fathers such as Benjamin Rush who could be classified as fundamentalist but the more prominent Founding Fathers just weren't all that religious although many did attend church services.

[Torie]

Episcolpaleans were thin on the ground in New England. Most were Congregationalists, including Adams.

[FF578]

OK, I wasn't sure about what you were saying. You are correct Most of the Founding Fathers were Anglicans (Episcopalians) which BTW Was much more conservative at that time than the Modern Episcopalian Church.

Thomas Paine is pushed as an Atheist/Deist, largly because of his work The Age of Reason that embraced French Rationalism, But were you aware that in later years he had a profound change and wrote:

"I would give worlds, if I had them, if the Age of Reason had never been written. O Lord, Help, Stay with me! It is hell to be left alone."

When Thomas Paine Gave his last words he said:

I die in perfect composure and resignation to the will of my Creator, God."