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Originally Posted by SECdomination
Use some logic. Do you really think that in 1776, the founding fathers were giving thought to other religions half a world away?
No, they wanted a choice to follow their Catholic or Protestant doctrines. By the way, both of those are Christian.
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Why yes Protestantism and Catholicism are both Christian... but Deism wasn't and isn't since it rejects the basic principles of Christianity.
Perhaps you should use some logic and/or research and apply it to the question of what Deism is and how it differs from Christianity, then apply what you discover to the principles of faith as outlined by the Founding Fathers of America.
PS> Incidentally the freedom to follow the Catholic faith wasn't really one of the founding principles given the virulent anti-Catholicism then (and some would argue now still) as evidenced by the outrage at the Quebec Act which guaranteed the freedom of the Catholic faith in Quebec and which was the final of the "Intolerable Acts".