Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Voltaire was a deist as were a good % of the Founding Fathers of the US.

“For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm”. Voltaire

The Enlightenment thinkers had a very wrong-minded notion of what they called the Dark Ages. It was one that was very suspicious of any kind of power in the hands of an established Church.

That's not my view of religion but it was the view of many of the Framers of the US Constitution.