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America's Christian Heritage  - http://www.alliance4lifemin.org/amchristii.html  Argues that the Founding Fathers were Christian not primarily Deists.  Infidels.org: The Christian Nation Myth  - http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/farrell_till/myth.html  Farrell Till argues that many of the founding fathers of the United States were Deists.  Of Course There Were Deists  - http://www.lawfulgov.org/deists.htm  Response article asserting that the founding fathers were Deists.  Stand to Reason: The Faith of Our Fathers  - http://www.str.org/free/commentaries/social_issues/faithofo.htm  Argues the faith of the founding fathers of the United States was based upon Christian principles not primarily Deism.  Who is Nature's God?  - http://history.hanover.edu/hhr/hhr93_1.html  Article by David Voelker discusses Thomas Jefferson's beliefs.  Six Historic Americans  - http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/john_remsburg/six_historic_americans/index.shtml  Online version of the book written by John E. Remsburg in 1906 argues that Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant were freethinkers or Deists.  The Faith of Our Founding Fathers  - http://www.postfun.com/worbois.html  Article cites remarks opposing the Bible.  Faith of Our Fathers: History Rewritten  - http://www.faithofourfathers.org/essays/rewrittinghistory.html  Discusses the Christian faith of Washington, Adams, Franklin, and others. Disputes the separation of Church and State, and misrepresentations of the Puritans.