See quotes by founding fathers, suggest starting with Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin...
http://positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/qframe.htm
Founding fathers who owned slaves:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_and_slavery
2006-12-29 04:21:26 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
yes i knew that they owned slaves and most of our founding fathers were freemasons
2006-12-29 05:02:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-31 03:35:13 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know Jefferson was either deist or athiest
Ethan Allen and Ben Franklin were deist
Washington is unknown.
Most were Christian to some degree
Most owned slaves. That was common.
2006-12-29 04:25:45 · answer #3 · answered by Jasmine 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Wow. What a revelation. There were people in a government that were not Christians. I doubt that that has ever happened before or since in all of history. And some of those non-Christians where slave owners. I thought that Christians were the only people in all of history who owned slaves. And here, I though Christianity was responsible for all the evils in the world, bur apparently not. Thanks for clearing that up.
2006-12-29 04:28:39 · answer #4 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not all of our founding fathers were Christians.
Jefferson was a deist (he though God made the earth and is now just watching it to see how things are going, but is not involved with us).
Yes they owned slaves.
We all have sins and bad ideas.
2006-12-29 04:26:00 · answer #5 · answered by tim 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wow, so non-Christians owned slaves too.
2006-12-29 04:24:07 · answer #6 · answered by puhpaul 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes
2006-12-29 04:26:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No
I didn't know any of them.
I had nothing to do with that stuff.
2006-12-29 04:39:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋