My Great Awakening

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I was thinking the same ... or similar. I would have loved to know his true thoughts on religion and God and free will. For a man that was so sure of what needed to be done and who (IMO) was such a great judge of character, could he really be so uncertain as to whether he believed in God?

I have sometimes wondered if, being the ultimate politician that he was, he used the tactic of pleading ignorance on his true beliefs. After all, he was rising to the top and trying to stay perched there during a very "religious" period of diverging faiths and interpretations of Christianity (and other world religions). Was it safer to stay a safe distance from discussing his personal views? Can't afford to lose votes...

Even Junius Brutus Booth the Elder studied a variety of cultures and religious tenets to try and understand what made the world tick.