[ronald_reagan]

Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island in 1636, who left "Puritanica" because of religious intolerance, who successfully vindicated the right of private judgment in matters of conscience, and effected a moral and political revolution in all governments of the civilized world. The role Williams played in the bridge from Puritanical thought to Western democratic thought is overlooked. He was a champion of liberty.

There's no doubt thats the truth. I have no quarrell.

You made a blanket statement that the founders were diests. This is factually inaccurate, and very misleading. That was my point, and made successfully so. History can judge Jefferson as one, as I'm sure he was. Franklin as well. And I'm sure there were others. But the whole of those founders were Christians, prayed publically as christians, wrote as christians, attended christian serves as christians, made speeches as christians...