Is there any proof of founding fathers believing Religion and Government should mix?

Question

If you have quotes, please state them and the website you got them from. If you have any proof that the founding fathers believed in mixing Christianity with government, please let me know. Thanks.

Answer 1

...I haven't time now to look up quotes, but I know on this web site. Mr. Barton has done oodles of research on the founders. I strongly urge you to check this site out - and you could spend hours on it. We bought several of his tapes, and they are very good.
...His findings would certainly annoy the ACLU, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, and others who wish to cloud and/or revise history and rob us of our heritage.
http://www.wallbuilders.com/

Answer 2

Absolutely. Thomas Jefferson put the Bible is school. Benjamin Franklin was known for praying during government meetings. Patrick Henry said "our country was founded on the Gospel of Jesus Christ." George Washington said "You can't have national morality apart from religious principle." The first amendment was written to prevent government from making laws restricting religion, but the doctrine of separation of church and state has turned it around to do exactly just that! Our religious rights are being stolen.

Answer 3

No because the hellish reign of the papacy did not end before our country was founded. This was still fresh in their minds. The idea of another theocracy would have been utterly repugnant to them. God forbid that we should ever return to that slippery slope. For 1260 years Rome ruled Europe with iron teeth. Ending only in 1798, when Napolean's General sacked Rome. that was the first beast and antichrist's seat.

Answer 4

You really shouldn't be baiting, because you're going to get a few Washington and Franklin quotes.

...of course, they will always be outnumbered by quotes from Paine, Jefferson, the Treaty of Tripoli, and others.

Answer 5

nearly all of our Founding Fathers maximum particularly did have a historic Christian faith. they regularly quoted the Bible of their writings, and that they strongly depended on prayer. indexed under are some examples of the form of issues they reported. Patrick Henry, 1776: “It won't be able to be emphasised too strongly or too regularly that this great united states of america grew to become into based no longer via religionists, yet via Christians; no longer on religions, yet on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. for that reason on my own, people of alternative faiths have been afforded freedom of worship right here.” John Quincy Adams, 1821: “the optimal glory of the american Revolution grew to become into this: It linked in one indissoluble bond the recommendations of civil government with the recommendations of Christianity.” James Madison, 1776: “we've staked the entire way forward for all our political constitutions upon the ability of each of ourselves to manage ourselves in accordance to the ethical recommendations of the ten Commandments.” there are a number of extra like this. so you might disclaim their Judeo-Christian worldview is ridiculous.

Answer 6

You should read an EXCELLENT article that I recently read on this very subject. Actually, all Americans that love our country and the constitution on which it is built should read this...

http://www.hillsdale.edu/imprimis/2006/10/

Good luck.

Answer 7

we all are 1 ans all didvine and everything belonf to higehr powers and love is the key to life and nothing else peace but not in the pieces

Answer 8

They went both ways on this probably to avoid too much dispute.

Answer 9

im pretty sure benjamin franklin was against it but i dont have a quote

Answer 10

The Private Nature of Religion

"I have ever thought religion a concern purely between our God and our consciences, for which we were accountable to Him, and not to the priests." --Thomas Jefferson to Mrs. M. Harrison Smith, 1816. ME 15:60

"From the dissensions among Sects themselves arise necessarily a right of choosing and necessity of deliberating to which we will conform. But if we choose for ourselves, we must allow others to choose also, and so reciprocally, this establishes religious liberty." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Religion, 1776. Papers 1:545

"Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle." --Thomas Jefferson to Richard Rush, 1813.

"I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others." --Thomas Jefferson to Edward Dowse, 1803. ME 10:378

"Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone. I inquire after no man's, and trouble none with mine." --Thomas Jefferson to Miles King, 1814. ME 14:198

Government Intermeddling in Religion

"I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment or free exercise of religion, but from that also which reserves to the states the powers not delegated to the United States. Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise or to assume authority in religious discipline has been delegated to the General Government. It must then rest with the states, as far as it can be in any human authority." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Miller, 1808. ME 11:428

"In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the general government. I have therefore undertaken on no occasion to prescribe the religious exercises suited to it; but have left them as the Constitution found them, under the direction and discipline of State or Church authorities acknowledged by the several religious societies." --Thomas Jefferson: 2nd Inaugural Address, 1805. ME 3:378

"Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should consider a conquest over the consciences of men either attainable or applicable to any desirable purpose." --Thomas Jefferson: Reply to New London Methodists, 1809. ME 16:332

"I do not believe it is for the interest of religion to invite the civil magistrate to direct its exercises, its discipline, or its doctrines; nor of the religious societies, that the General Government should be invested with the power of effecting any uniformity of time or matter among them. Fasting and prayer are religious exercises. The enjoining them, an act of discipline. Every religious society has a right to determine for itself the times for these exercises and the objects proper for them according to their own particular tenets; and this right can never be safer than in their own hands where the Constitution has deposited it... Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the President of the United States, and no authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Miller, 1808. ME 11:429

"To suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous fallacy which at once destroys all religious liberty, because he being of course judge of that tendency will make his opinions the rule of judgment and approve or condemn the sentiments of others only as they shall square with or differ from his own." --Thomas Jefferson: Statute for Religious Freedom, 1779. ME 2:302, Papers 2: 546

"It is... proposed that I should recommend, not prescribe, a day of fasting and prayer. That is, that I should indirectly assume to the United States an authority over religious exercises which the Constitution has directly precluded them from. It must be meant, too, that this recommendation is to carry some authority and to be sanctioned by some penalty on those who disregard it; not indeed of fine and imprisonment, but of some degree of proscription, perhaps in public opinion. And does the change in the nature of the penalty make the recommendation less a law of conduct for those to whom it is directed?... Civil powers alone have been given to the President of the United States, and no authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Miller, 1808. ME 11:428

Religion Intermeddling in Government

"Whenever... preachers, instead of a lesson in religion, put [their congregation] off with a discourse on the Copernican system, on chemical affinities, on the construction of government, or the characters or conduct of those administering it, it is a breach of contract, depriving their audience of the kind of service for which they are salaried, and giving them, instead of it, what they did not want, or, if wanted, would rather seek from better sources in that particular art of science." --Thomas Jefferson to P. H. Wendover, 1815. ME 14:281

"Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public education committed to the ministers of a particular one; and with more reason than in the case of their exclusion from the legislative and executive functions." --Thomas Jefferson: Note to Elementary School Act, 1817. ME 17:419

"No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination." --Thomas Jefferson: Elementary School Act, 1817. ME 17:425

"I do not know that it is a duty to disturb by missionaries the religion and peace of other countries, who may think themselves bound to extinguish by fire and fagot the heresies to which we give the name of conversions, and quote our own example for it. Were the Pope, or his holy allies, to send in mission to us some thousands of Jesuit priests to convert us to their orthodoxy, I suspect that we should deem and treat it as a national aggression on our peace and faith." --Thomas Jefferson to Michael Megear, 1823. ME 15:434