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Jefferson wasn't a deist, he

Submitted by MaxK on Tue, 05/15/2012 - 10:07.

Jefferson wasn't a deist, he was a vestryman at his church, and instituted the first public church services in DC, as well as designing the new church building of his congregation when the old one was abandoned. I could go on.

Pain was the only deist at the end of his life that some people call a founder, but he was widely disliked by other early founders for it. Franklin was briefly a deist in his 20s, which in his autobiography he says he regretted. He offered advice to his daughter to attend church.

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