Who exactly ARE the founding fathers?

OK, let's get pragmatic. Who exactly ARE the founding fathers? For the sake of this section, they will be figured to be those not only sent to the convention, but those who actually SIGNED the Constitution. Fair enough?

Franklin, Benjamin
   "Whoever will introduce into public affairs the principles of Christianity will change the face of the world."

   "I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did."

   "I wish it [Christianity] were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy-day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity."

Washington, George
   "Do not let any one claim to be a true American if they ever attempt to remove religion from politics."

   "It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being."

   "It is impossible to govern the universe without the aid of a Supreme Being."

   "It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one."

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