They were products of the enlightenment, many of them clung to the term deist. They were secular in that they wanted religion and government separate.
But the majority of them were slave owners, most would be appalled at seeing a woman nominated for president, most would have shat themselves at a black man as president.
Point being, not everything they stood for or believed in should be lauded. They made a remarkably transcendent document, for that they should be applauded. But the fact that they didn't believe in evolution or believed in creation doesn't make those things any more true.
But the majority of them were slave owners, most would be appalled at seeing a woman nominated for president, most would have shat themselves at a black man as president.
Point being, not everything they stood for or believed in should be lauded. They made a remarkably transcendent document, for that they should be applauded. But the fact that they didn't believe in evolution or believed in creation doesn't make those things any more true.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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