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Originally posted by SoCal911SC
...There is a lot more on both sides of this debate, of course - these are just two quotes that I remembered and googled in one minute. But is is not "unequivocably true" that the founding fathers believed in that religion should have the impact on politics, policy, and the national agenda that modern Religious Righters claim.
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Very true, and if you look at what Jefferson wrote about the Virginia Religious Freedom documents, he specifically mentions and welcomes followers of Islam and 'Hindoo.'
It puzzles me that Christians somehow interpret any form of deism as Christianity, but I'll bet that if you were to take a poll, the majority of them would do just that.