I am a christian - and it affects ALL of my political views.

[grantcart]

96. I would be interested in any citation you have that he was a traditional Christian

Everything I have seen supports the suggestion that he was a Deist.

http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/washington.htm

He attended two Churches regularly over an extended period of time and both pastors have stated that he never took communion;

that he would not again give cause for the repetition of the reproof; and that, as he had never been a communicant, were he to become one then, it would be imputed to an ostentatious display of religious zeal, arising altogether from his elevated station. Accordingly, he never afterwards came on the morning of sacrament Sunday, though at other times he was a constant attendant in the morning."


"In regard to the subject of your inquiry, truth requires me to say that General Washington never received the communion in the churches of which I am the parochial minister. Mrs. Washington was an habitual communicant. I have been written to by many on that point, and have been obliged to answer them am as I now do you."

"I find no one who ever communed with him."

"On communion Sundays, he left the church with me after the blessing, and returned home, and we sent the carriage back after my grandmother."

There are lots of quotes from pastors of the time like this one;

"I have diligently perused every line that Washington ever gave to the public, and I do not find one expression in which he pledges, himself as a believer in Christianity. I think anyone who will candidly do as I have done, will come to the conclusion that he was a Deist and nothing more."