"Deists also believed that society corrupted man. They claimed that a group of people, completely cut off from the outside world, would have the perfect life. This moronic idea is still prevalent today, it has just been republished over the years with a different dust jacket. If deists had taken the time to read the Bible, they would have found that because of sin, man corrupts everything he touches! It is sin, not society that destroys and corrupts. But, since the Bible (Ed. Note: According to these same people) can't be trusted, why look there for the answers?

"Several of the Founding Fathers were supposedly deists. This list is claimed to include Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, and Thomas Paine. If you read the writings of these men, you will realize that the accusation against Jefferson, Madison and Franklin is pure bunk.

Jefferson often spoke of his fear of the judgment of God upon his nation (a direct contradiction of the main belief of deists), Franklin spoke of how much the leaders of the young nation needed to pray for God's guidance, and Madison wrote of the importance of building a society that had the Word of God and God's Laws as its Foundation. If they were deists, then they were hypocritical deists.

Of all of the "Founders" the only TRUE deist was Thomas Paine, and he really wasn't much of a Founder. Paine was an anarchist who high-tailed it out of the newly independent Colonies as soon as independence was won to cause trouble elsewhere --- France." -- Excerpt On Deists from "Death of Responsibility," by D. Ray Perdue, Jr.