Directory of Founding Fathers Debate Resources

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Category Description for Deism/Founding Fathers Debate

Sites affirming or contesting whether the founding fathers of the United States of America were Deists.

Resources in This Category

• America's Christian Heritage

  http://www.alliance4lifemin.org/articles.php?id=24
  Argues that the Founding Fathers were Christian not primarily Deists.

• Infidels.org: The Christian Nation Myth

  http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/farrell_till/myth.html
  Farrell Till argues that many of the founding fathers of the United States were Deists.

• Six Historic Americans

  http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/john_remsburg/six_historic_americans/
  Online version of the book written by John E. Remsburg in 1906 argues that Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant were freethinkers or Deists.

• Stand to Reason: The Faith of Our Fathers

  http://www.str.org/articles/the-faith-of-our-fathers#.U_N6I2M-ed4
  Argues the faith of the founding fathers of the United States was based upon Christian principles not primarily Deism.

• Who is Nature's God?

  http://history.hanover.edu/hhr/hhr93_1.html
  Article by David Voelker discusses Thomas Jefferson's beliefs.

• Wikipedia: List of United States Presidential Religious Affiliations

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Presidential_religious_affiliations
  Provocative list indicating both official denominational memberships as well as supposed or inferred religious beliefs of the U.S. Presidents.

• WorldNetDaily: Thomas Jefferson: Deist or Christian?

  http://www.wnd.com/2002/06/14285/
  D. James Kennedy presents Jefferson as a nominal Christian, yet not so hostile as some would claim.

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