TPMCafe | Talking Points Memo | Fallacy #1: The Founders Weren't Deists

TPMCafe | Talking Points Memo | Fallacy #1: The Founders Weren't Deists

First in a series about the faith of the Founding Fathers. Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Franklin may not have been orthodox, but they "believed in an omnipotent god who intervened in the lives of men and nations" and "that their actions in life would be judged and determine their fate in the afterlife." And many other members of the Constitutional Convention -- Patrick Henry, Sam Adams, John Hancock, John Witherspoon among them -- were orthodox Christians. (Via Rod Dreher.)