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“As we contemplate Washington’s words and place them in his historical circumstances, it occurs to us that a man so concerned for righteousness in his army, and for military chaplains to lead his men in seeking the blessings of heaven, just might have been a praying man himself.”
― Peter A. Lillback, George Washington's Sacred Fire

“George Washington clearly shared the foundational Virginian concern to “Christianize the savagesâ€� dwelling in the Virginia Colony. On July 10, 1789, in response to an address from the directors of the Society of The United Brethren for Propagating the Gospel Among the Heathen, Washington stated: In proportion as the general Government of the United States shall acquire strength by duration, it is probable they may have it in their power to extend a salutary influence to the Aborigines in the extremities of their Territory. In the meantime, it will be a desirable thing for the protection of the Union to co-operate, as far as circumstances may conveniently admit, with the disinterested [unselfish] endeavours of your Society to civilize and Christianize the Savages of the Wilderness.28 A Deist, by definition, rejected Christianity and accepted the equivalence of all religionsâ€� worship of God. So no Deist could see the plan for the “conversion of the heathenâ€� outlined by Bishop Ettwein and the Brethren as both “laudableâ€� and “earnestly desired.â€� Yet those are Washington’s words.”
― Peter A. Lillback, George Washington's Sacred Fire