Rigby5
Diamond Member
Far be it from Rigby5 to ever post anything that is true or accurate.
But your definition of "Deist" is not accurate either.
I agree with you that the founders were in large deeply religious.
Franklin was indeed a Deist. Deists were not Atheists as you noted, but they held that the creator - God - created the universe and basically walked away. They held that Jesus was the path to Salvation, but the good works were the means, That rationality was the key to understanding and the revelation is a myth.
Deist can be whatever they want themselves to be, and by rejecting all existing denominations, they usually had a vastly more practical and scientific view of what god may be.
They mostly did NOT believe Jesus was any sort of "path to Salvation" and many did not even believe "Salvation" was possible or desirable.
But I agree that they did have the common belief in "good works" and that "rationality was the key to understanding and the revelation is a myth".
But most important of all is that the Founders did not ever disapprove of or try to criminalize abortion.