Weren't something like 90-95% of them, though?
A bunch of them were Deists, but I disremember the percentages....
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Weren't something like 90-95% of them, though?
A bunch of them were Deists, but I disremember the percentages....
Weren't something like 90-95% of them, though?
Well, weren't the Deists? Which I would call Chrsitian, but I think some of the more evangelical churches use the word christian only to refer to their religion. I have met people who think Catholics are not Christian.
According to Wikipedia (so don't know if it's true): "Of the 55 delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention, 49 were Protestants, and three were Roman Catholics"
So that leaves, 3 others as deists.
There are so many different flavors of Protestant, though. For a while, Protestant simply meant "believes the Pope is not all that."
Jesus,please let the plane for Vegas board so that all of these people will go away.
There are so many different flavors of Protestant, though
Again, per Wikipedia: "Among the Protestant delegates to the Constitutional Convention, 28 were Church of England (or Episcopalian, after the American Revolutionary War was won), eight were Presbyterians, seven were Congregationalists, two were Lutherans, two were Dutch Reformed, and two were Methodists."
I would have expected at least a few Quakers.
They were Christian, but probably not like FB person means. And most of "Dr." David Barton's "Told ya so," statements on the subject do not hold up under scrutiny.(Not mine, other smarter, people's.) Chris Rodda wrote some great diaries about that in DK.
I didn't think Deist was considered Christian. This [link] says that Franklin and Jefferson were Deists, but I guess that ia really all, so my bad. I thought Washington and or Hamilton were not really church-going, but that may just be in my head. What would it have been like at that time to declare oneself a non-believer?
My motivation doesn't seem to have come to work today, which is bad, but my ability to care didn't come either.