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If Our Founding Fathers Were All Christians, Why Did They Say This?
Nobody can deny the fact that Christianity has played a huge role in our history. From the first Thanksgiving to the ideas of Jesus Christ that are embroidered in our culture today, Christianity and the Bible are responsible a big part of our heritage.
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I don't see it as incompatible to say "question everything even the existence of God" and be a Christian. It's possible that he'd questioned and been converted.
Especially when some of the greatest Christian thinkers - Thomas Aquinas, Augustine, Dante, Pope Benedict XVI - all stressed constant evaluation of your faith. John Paul II even wrote one of his encyclicals, Fides et Ratio - Faith and Reason, on the view that religion was only viable when it conformed to reason. After all, if God designed man to follow Him, then He would have granted us the intellects to do so.
That being said, the founders were largely deist, not Christian. But much of the same reasoning applies.
They were deist
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"
"all men" lol. There is no god.