You know, you can argue all day as to whether or not the Founding Fathers were Christian or not - it really depends on your definition of "Christian". But to say they weren't *religious* is way out there. At the very least, they were Deists. They certainly believed in God. Jefferson himself wrote a LOT about his scorn for the heirarchy of organized religion to the point that he started to EDIT the Bible. Heck, HE was the first (to my knowledge) person to translate the Koran into English in this country.
He *did* believe in God but mocked many of the trappings of, for example, the Catholic church. As an example:
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And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter
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