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Was George Washington a Deist?
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- Posted: northtriclimate on Jul 01, 2012
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Was George Washington a Deist?
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CNN Blogs
Why a president’s faith may not matter – CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs
Washington, the nation’s first president, was not a Christian but most likely a Deist, someone who believed in a divine, beneficent being who ordered the world.
infidels.org
Six Historic Americans: George Washington
Washington, the young Virginia planter, might, perhaps, with some degree of truthfulness, have been called a Christian; Washington, the Soldier, statesman and sage, was not a Christian, but a Deist
freethought.mbdojo.com
Our Founding Fathers Were NOT Christians
The father of this country was very private about his beliefs, but it is widely considered that he was a Deist like his colleagues.
gayheroes.com
Founding Fathers were NOT CHRISTIANS!
GEORGE WASHINGTON: a Deist, not a Christian.
bibowen.hubpages.com
Was George Washington a Deist?
These collected facts and others led secular historians such as Paul Boller and Rupert Hughes to conclude that George Washington was a deist, a believer in a creator of the universe, but not the personal and knowable God of the Bible.
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afa.net
Kerby Anderson: George Washington and Religion - RIGHTLYCONCERNED.COM
He was not.
probe.org
George Washington and Religion - Probe Ministries
He was not.
George Washington and Religion - Probe Ministries
Was George Washington a Deist?
George Washington and Religion - Probe Ministries
George Washington was not a Deist who believed in a “watchmaker God.” He was a Christian and demonstrated that Christian character throughout his life.
americancreation.blogspot.com
American Creation: One Reason Why Scholars Think Washington Was a Deist
If one focused only on those letters where GW invoked the neo-Stoic impersonal Providence I understand why one would (inaptly in my opinion) conclude him a "deist."
bibowen.hubpages.com
Was George Washington a Deist?
In this essay, I will take a similar tack, concluding that George Washington was not a deist.
americanfounding.blogspot.com
American Revolution & Founding Era: Was George Washington a "Deist"?
The assessment of many historians that Washington was a Deist, no matter how often it is repeated, is demonstrably false.
pudge.net
Washington: Not a Deist - <pudge/*>
You could certainly claim Adams was not a conventional Christian (he was a Unitarian, and did not believe in the divinity of Christ), but he was, like Washington, no Deist.