Here’s what we can say for certain about their religious beliefs.
1) All of the Founders believed in a transcendent God, that is, a Creator who exists outside of nature.
2) All the Founders believed in a God who imposes moral obligations on human beings
3) All the Founders believed in a God who punishes bad behavior and rewards good behavior in an afterlife.
The notion that any of the Founders believed in an impersonal deity who merely created the universe and then left it to itself is false. All of them believed in a God who, as Franklin said at the Constitutional Convention, “governs in the affairs of men.”
