Has there ever been an agnostic or atheist U.S. president?

Answer 1

Dear Secret A:

As many respondents have noted, there were many deist presidents that pretended to believe in a personal God for political gain.

Evangelical agenda today is to make Christianity the official religion of the U.S. It is interesting to see them quote the founder of the Constitution, Thomas Jefferson, in a manner to support their agenda.

Actually, Jefferson never announced his faith publically, associated with Unitarianists (deists) and said He was not against religion, but what religion has done.

I have two copies of the Jeffersonian Bible. Therein he reduced Jesus to a philosopher-level with Plato, Aristotle, etc. In that Bible, he removes everything to intimate that Jesus was divine, such as statements by the Father: This is my beloved Son." That is the 10th Bible translation for me to read, and wish I hadn't because Revelation 22:19 says: "And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and [from] the things which are written in this book."

But when our Constitutin was framed, Christians from Europe brought with them the idea that since, to quote the Bible: "governing authorities are ordained by God", and the King's religion was usually the state religion, each Colony attempted to make their state religion predominate in the U.S., almost a beauratic "holy-war." Jefferson opposed this, once attempted to eliminate schism by forming a "generic" relilgin for all--that blunder almost got him impeached.

Anyway, it was with great debate that we have our religious freedoms today, and they should be protected. We know there are those who want to make Allah the world religion, not so known is that Catholics and Protestants have "healed the breach" to a great extent, and want to legislate a One-World Government for Jesus.

Unfortunately, where there are governments enforcing religious dogma, there are sanctions--persecutions and martyrs. The Bible warns of this. One Internet publication cracks the last-day Bible code to reveal its major players. You will find it quite interesting, it is the only part of the Bible that says: "these words are sealed [closed] until the end of the days"; and that is for a very special reason, otherwise all Bibles would have been burnt, see: www.revelado.org/revealed.htm

Blessings and AGAPE love, One-way

Answer 2

people used to declare that we'd never have a black president, look at us now. i think of we could finally end up with an irreligious or agnostic president, exceedingly in the event that they stay hidden approximately it. For an open agnostic or irreligious i think of we are exceedingly some distance from that. As for an Atheist president, I don’t think of that could desire to ever rather ensue except there replace into an exceedingly great turn around in non secular attitude in the U.S. An atheist president might have a puzzling time elevating help.

Answer 3

none that would admit to it publically. the answer is, probably not---although lots of people have agnostic thoughts and questions in our hearts from time to time.

I have read a biography of nearly every President, and ALL of them belonged to a church---but sleeping in a chicken coop does not make you a chicken.

A Deist is NOT agnostic or athiest, by the way. Franklin attended several churches and usually was in a pew on Sundays, Washington was Episcopalean, (sp) and Jefferson regularly attended Presbyterian churches.

Answer 4

James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were deists. Abraham Lincoln even wrote an anti-Christian book prior to be elected.

Answer 5

well, if there ever were, they could not or did not admit to it...however, many of the founding fathers like george washington, thomas jefferson, ben franklin, and james madison, were in fact deists. a deist believes in a creator god that is not a personal god as is the one in the bible. in other words, the founding fathers believed that a supernatural being created the universe, but is not actively involved with it. obviously, in the atmosphere of the day, admitting you were anything but a christian would not have put you in good standing in the community.

Answer 6

There is a decent chance Lincoln was. He really kept it pretty quiet for political reasons and that makes it hard to know for sure. But he certainly wasn't a Christian. I personally think that he was some flavor of agnostic.

Adams and Jefferson were both Deists and pretty open about it though they both did attend church at times. Jefferson felt the need to rewrite the New Testament to match his beliefs. (Google Jefferson Bible) Washington was another who kept it pretty quiet and he is hard to pin down, but after he died his own minister said he was a Deist.

Answer 7

I am sure there have been, but they just couldn't admit it. I would guess the more publically religious they appeared, the more agnostic or atheist they really were.

Answer 8

I've read about 3 of our founding fathers who were Deists as opposed to Christians.

George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin

Answer 9

Lincoln appears to be the most openly agnostic President so far.

Answer 10

I've read where Thomas Jefferson and George Washington were Deists. Which is about as close to being agnostic as you can get without actually being one.