daily reminder that among the founding fathers there were only 2 anti clerical Christians and zero deists* and the rest of them were protestants, Catholics (2) , and Anglicans **.
* if you count thomas paine then there was one deist, but he is usually not counted as a founding father because he did not sign any of the four most influential documents (continental association , decoration of independence , articles of confederation, and constitution .)
>>8056017oof
** the numbers may vary as some scholars think that some of the fathers could be considered theistic rationalists
