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 == Removal of Unsourced Claim == 

 I removed an unsourced paragraph making the very dubious and harmful claim that nearly all of the founding fathers were devout Protestants.  I was unable to find any credible sources to substantiate this claim via a Google search.  It also contradicts what we were taught in school regarding the prevalence of Deism among the nation's founders.  I judged this claim to be potentially very harmful because it directly pertains to a number of highly contentious and far-reaching political debates happening throughout the country.  In fact, my attention was drawn to this after reading a posting that cited the unsourced paragraph in this article as its sole source and drew a number of conclusions, many of which verifiably false, from it.  Regardless of how any of us feels about these issues, we should all at least be able to agree that it's not Wikipedia's mission to influence public policy by including unsourced, original research in its articles. 

 Furthermore, I also noticed that at least one of the sources in that section has one link that leads to a 404 and two other links to general material about Deism that doesn't actually substantiate what the reference claims.  I believe that the entire ""Religion"" section should be re-visited and cleaned-up.  I have a feeling there may be more incongruous sourcing in and around there.  I'll try to set aside some time to look at it in more detail and add the appropriate templates.    "