41. However, this is not really what Voltaire and his deists were going on about. 42. On page 25, it notes that George Washington and the Founding Fathers were Deists . 43. Deists believe that there is a god.44. Radical Deists and evangelical ministers worked together to create a new nation guaranteeing basic human rights. 45. Jefferson considered himself a deist who belonged to no particular church and Madison was an Episcopalian. 46. Deists reject the divinity of Christ.47. It split from Deism . com to promote more traditional and historical Deist beliefs and history. 48. However, he never spoke about any particular Deist beliefs which he may of have had. 49. Historian Gregg Frazer argues that Washington was not a deist but a " theistic rationalist ". 50. Though to some extent anticipated by the British deist , Richard Simon and Johann Albrecht Bengel.
