The people at the grass roots level were overwhelmingly Protestant Christian. And revived and alive in their faith via Whitfield and the Great Awakening.
Mass had a state religion until 1830 or so.
John Adams read the bible daily and exhorted his children to do the same. His cousin Sam was an orthodox Protestant, through and through as was Patrick Henry and George Washington and the sons of the Scot Covenanters that filled the ranks of his army.
The Laws of Nature and Nature's God is the opening salvo in Jefferson's defense of the American secession, and this phrase is precisely defined by Blackstone and Locke in their writings; that Jefferson openly admitted he was guided by.
Our entire law system was framed by "The laws of nature and nature's God," every inch and ounce of it. And Blackstone more than any other precisely defines it in his commentary on English law; and it is the eternal moral law of God revealed in scripture and natural law, ie., God's moral law revealed in nature and written into human conscience even before the revelation of the law of Moses.
Stop telling lies about America's founding generation; it makes you look desperate and small minded and vindictive. Just face open honest facts of the case and deal with it.
Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven.
