And half (or more) drunk as well...
Or so I have read.
In the days of our founding fathers alcohol was the pain medicine of choice and some say that many of those middle-aged, arthritis wracked gentlemen were well buzzed by mid-afternoon.
I am sure many were quite religious but some of the more notable were Universalists, which is as close as you could get to atheism in those days. I don't recall which ones but I believe that Jefferson and Adams were two in that category.
