George Washington was no deist: Exposing the modern myth about America’s founding

Bestselling author and cultural commentator Eric Metaxas set out with the intention to tell the true story of the American Revolution.

“I said, ‘I just want to write a very compelling, very readable, fun, gallop-through-our-history [book],’” he tells Glenn Beck.

But as Metaxas researched, he kept coming across details from our history that “astonished” him.

One of those details had to do with none other than America’s first president. Many modern historians have labeled Washington a deist — that is, one who believes in a distant God who created the world but does not intervene in human affairs. These are generally the same people who argue that America was not founded as a Christian nation.

Metaxas calls the claim that Washington was a deist “baloney.”

“Washington was no