Disciples of Reason - What did the founding fathers really believe? Extract: President Paradox. Though George Washington recorded in his personal prayer diary that God would accept him because of "the merits of thy Son Jesus Christ," he attended church inconsistently and never took Communion. Also, though he was not public about his religion, the public was religious about him, sometimes picturing him after his death as taken up to heaven, divinely exalted for his good deeds and character.
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