A Question: Where Did the Story Get Started that Most of the Founders were Deists?0

• December 3, 2013

It is a common claim that most of the Founders were deists. (A deist is a person who believes that there is a Creator but that He is not actively involved in the world—the “great watchmaker” hypothesis.)  As many authors have shown, the claim is false: Tom Paine aside, almost all the leading Founders professed