Originally Posted by JimmyTheHutt

The use of that term in the Declaration of Independence must also be coupled with the fact that Jefferson and Franklin (two of the main architects of said document) were Diests. This means that they treated God as a first cause and nothing more. By way of this belief, God created the Earth, and Man, and then sat back and watched the machine run. It does not imply inclusion of any other Christia Dogma into the Principles of this nation.