Well time changes... many fumbling fathers were Slave Owners.

I would have loved to talk to any one of them about religion, in contrast to most politicians today.

Actually, I bet most of them would have found their way to agnosticism and/or atheism today.

And yet there are Christians today who feel 'marginalized' if not, under siege!

Ben Franklin, one of the most beloved and internationally renowned citizens of the Colonial Period, and who was also a Deist, could have made this list. It was fateful for the United States that its establishment, including a Constitution void of any deity, came at this period in history which has been called, the Age of Enlightenment. Truly another neo-classical age of reason, critical thinking and rational thought is needed in the 21st century, or we risk not making it through the 22nd.

Good talking points in these crazy times.

Absolutely! If only reason would prevail, today.