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carpetbagger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 09:32 PM
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13. The short list....
Washington: Belonged to Episcopal Church when that was a prerequisite for holding colonial office. Didn't take communion, switched churches when challenged about it. Some years went to church 4-5 times only, his own ministers said he wasn't a Christian.

Jefferson: Well-known beliefs against supernatural stuff, and against some of the key tenets of the Christian religion. He also vetoed a pair of bills which would have funded two churches to provide services. Just for kicks, he published a gospel of Jesus with all the miracles taken out.

Adams: Doubtful of things supernatural, his church became Unitarian within a generation.

Franklin: Deist.

Paine: Deist at best.

Madison: Christian, at least nominally, but the separation of church and state was his baby, and he meant it.

Patrick Henry: Everything that right wing Christianity says about him is true, proving the broken watch being right twice a day theory.

Try this for starters...

http://monotheism.us/
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