U are wrong there were no actual diests as we know them today they all embraced if not the gospel then a s Jefferson did the principals of society contained in the Bible as the basis for our & a civil society. You would have to deliberately ignore their repeated statements tio theis historical fact inorder to deny it. Even Newsweek in 1987 believe did a cover story on the relevance of the Bible to the founding of the nation & dared to say it was moreso the foundation than anything else of our nation!