George Washington's Religion

I got interested in Washington and decided to look at a book we have on what the Founding Father's religions were. What George Washington believed in is something still disagreed over. People say he was a Christian, but most of the evidence shows that he was a deist. Deists believe that God did make the world, but then he just left it and there is no way to communicate with him or have fellowship with him. The reason I say he was a deist is because of what he himself said, did, and wrote. He didn't take communion a single time after the Revolutionary War. Instead of saying "God", "Father", and "Lord", he used Deistic descriptive phrases such as "the Deity", "the Supreme Being", "the Grand Architect", and "the Great Ruler of Events". In official documents he wrote that winning the Revolutionary War, and successfully creating a new republic was a work of "Providence", not God. Like deists, he was also more concerned with ethics and morality than theology. After he died he was buried with Episcopal and Masonic funeral services, and a Masonic monument still marks his grave today. George Washington was a great leader however, because he used God's truths and laws even though he ignored the God of those truths. Because of this, he is thought of as a Deistic Episcopalian - but since you either serve God or someone else, and you cannot have two masters, I think that he was not a Christian even thought he was an amazing leader.

source: The Religion of the Founding Fathers by David L. Holmes