John Adams and John Hancock:
We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus! [April 18, 1775]
http://www.eadshome.com/QuotesoftheFounders.htm
Do not disbelieve, your ancestors and God deserves better...
You deserve some truth today! XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO
2006-09-03 09:16:45 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Scoffers, You didn't even go to the website did you...
You a had chance at the truth, it was a click away.
Actual letters from Jefferson and Adams.
What other truth will you deny next?
Will you say the sky is brown?
I am just so thankful the Truth doesn't allude me..
Reality is an obscure notion to some.
I believe they just can't handle the truth!
People can change, truth is a choice.
Chose the truth...
2006-09-03 10:54:58 · update #1
weemaryanne, genaddt, and luckyfokker
**********and all rebels*************
You can lead a horse to water but you can not make him drink...
YOU DID NOT EVEN LOOK AT THIS SITE!
Actual letters (just below the header, click)
from the library of congress! You had a chance at the truth, sadly, you lost it!You missed a rare opportunity. Foolish!- becasue, wisedom is a virtue...
2006-09-03 11:03:22 · update #2
Kithy, read above, (just above) SHAME ON YOU!
The truth just alludes some people even though it is right in front of them! They make their pitiful, little mind up, on what makes them comfortable and ignore the TRUTH!
2006-09-04 04:40:47 · update #3
LUCKY FOKKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why are you so uncomfortable about the truth? I am not attacking you. Yet you are attacking the truth... Are you Jewish?(no shame in that!) Are you satanic or gay or something that you reject the truth about Christianity? That is between you and God! Honestly, YOUR quotes are FALSE and have no legal or binding citations. Where as mine come from HISTORICAL CITATIONS that are you can reference, so it is PROOF!
SEE BELOW IF YOU CAN HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2006-09-04 09:05:34 · update #4
John Quincy Adams:
• “Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day [the Fourth of July]?" “Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity"?
--1837, at the age of 69, when he delivered a Fourth of July speech at Newburyport, Massachusetts.
“The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.”
John Quincy Adams. Letters to his son. p. 61
2006-09-04 09:05:59 · update #5
Satan is a great big imitator! He takes a little bit of truth and makes a big fat lie!
He takes sentences out of context or half sentences to prove his malicious lies. ALL to pursuade people to deny the truth and the truth about God! He did it to Adam and Eve and he still tries to do it today! Do not be his fool. You deserve better!
2006-09-04 09:10:23 · update #6
It is in the Constitution of the U.S.
That this land be ran according too the "Triune" God.
Didn't know that, huh?
Yes. It is there.
great Q*.
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2006-09-03 09:39:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Some of them were... but not all of them. Read Thomas Jeffersons own memiors and you will see he did not believe in Christianity. Thomas Jefferson even wrote his own Bible... the Jefferson Bible. Ben Franklin did not believe either... according to letters he wrote to different people concerning the religion itself.
Like with all things, such things were always on debate, even for them. This is a lot like the argument that the Founding Fathers were all for Democracy. Some were... most were not.
2006-09-03 12:36:11 · answer #2 · answered by Kithy 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Ah, good logical thinking on your part. We should all be Christians because John Adams and John Hancock were Christians. We owe it to these guys don't we? Yes... great thinking. Many of the founding fathers were Deists though, weren't they? So why shouldn't we be Deists?
By the way, the Treaty of Tripoli (1797 I believe) states that this country is, in no way, founded upon the Christian religion.
2006-09-03 09:21:46 · answer #3 · answered by Landon H 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
They don't have that great bit about how Thomas Jefferson edited the Bible with a razor blade and took out the parts that he thought were silly. Shame.
2006-09-03 09:23:00 · answer #4 · answered by angk 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Is that all you've got?
"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature." (Thomas Jefferson)
"Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity." (Thomas Jefferson)
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." (Thomas Jefferson)
"Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear....Do not be frightened from this inquiry by any fear of its consequences. If it end in a belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue on the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise and in the love of others which it will procure for you." (Thomas Jefferson)
"In every country and in every age the priest has been hostile to liberty; he is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own." (Thomas Jefferson)
"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." (Thomas Paine)
2006-09-03 09:26:45 · answer #5 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
"The Christian God can be easily pictured as virtually the same as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, evil and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed, beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of the people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites." -- Thomas Jefferson
"During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution." -- James Madison
"Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man." -- Thomas Jefferson
"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of...Each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my own part, I disbelieve them all." -- Thomas Paine
"Twenty times in the course of my late reading, have I been upon the point of breaking out, 'This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!'" -- John Adams
Thomas Jefferson referred to the Revelation of St. John as "the ravings of a maniac" and wrote: "The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ levelled to every understanding and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticisms of Plato, materials with which they might build up an artificial system which might, from its indistinctness, admit everlasting controversy, give employment for their order, and introduce it to profit, power, and pre-eminence. The doctrines which flowed from the lips of Jesus himself are within the comprehension of a child; but thousands of volumes have not yet explained the Platonisms engrafted on them: and for this obvious reason that nonsense can never be explained."
"As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion...has received various corrupting Changes, and I have, with most of the present dissenters in England, some doubts as to his Divinity; tho' it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the Truth with less trouble." -- Benjamin Franklin
2006-09-03 09:22:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Some of the founding fathers were christian some were deists. Some bordered on atheism. They founded the country on the ideal of religious tolerance not christianity.
2006-09-03 09:23:55 · answer #7 · answered by genaddt 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
lol, that's just two of the founding fathers......what about the others?
and to be honest, the fact that they were christian has NOTHING to do with the constitution.........it is based on self-evident rights and logical thinking. neither of these men claim that god "inspired" the constitution, but that they were christian. that's all. in their private lives no less.
2006-09-03 09:21:59 · answer #8 · answered by Aleks 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
they told lies, they recognized the british soveriegn. regards LF
John Hancocks ancestors came from wiltshire England. so im told
2006-09-03 09:24:05 · answer #9 · answered by lefang 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe, but they wrote the constitution on hemp paper which they grew. And hemp paper is from the cannabis plant, which is also marijuana. So the founding fathers literally grew pot!!!! We can't trust what THEY said. damn dope smoking hippies. Hell they probably thought they saw him.
2006-09-03 09:21:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋