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Were America?s Founders Christians or deists? Conservatives and secularists have taken each position respectively, mustering evidence to insist just how tall the wall separating church and state should be. Now Gregg Frazer puts their arguments to rest in the first comprehensive analysis of the Founders? beliefs as they themselves expressed them?showing that today?s political right and left are both wrong.Going beyond church attendance or public pronouncements made for political ends, Frazer scrutinizes the Founders? candid declarations regarding religion found in their private writings. Distilling decades of research, he contends that these men were neither Christian nor deist but rather adherents of a system he labels ?theistic rationalism,? a hybrid belief system that combined elements of natural religion, Protestantism, and reason?with reason the decisive element. Frazer explains how this theological middle ground developed, what its core beliefs were, and how they were reflected