2006-10-11 13:19:08 · 8 answers · asked by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Episcopalian
2006-10-11 13:21:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
James Madison, fourth president and father of the Constitution, was not religious in any conventional sense. "Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise."
"During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have 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."
2006-10-11 20:21:06 · answer #2 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A wide-eyed and youthful James Madison, travelling in Culpeper County in Virginia, came upon a jail that housed half a dozen Baptist preachers, held simply for publishing their religious views. Madison bristled with indignation at the "diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution." Writing to his friend William Bradford, he ended with a lament: "So I leave you to pity me and pray for Liberty and Conscience to revive among us."
2006-10-11 20:24:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Episcopalian
2006-10-11 20:22:10 · answer #4 · answered by fishtown_jimmy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As one other person said, he was a deist but was associated (loosely) with the Episcopalians. The quotes already included in some answers define the "loosely" part.
2006-10-11 20:31:42 · answer #5 · answered by JAT 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was a Deist, but he belonged to the Episcopalian Church.
2006-10-11 20:23:26 · answer #6 · answered by The Doctor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Atheist I believe.
2006-10-11 20:23:03 · answer #7 · answered by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise."
-nuff said
2006-10-11 20:23:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋