Lets suppose that the Founding Fathers of America were indeed Christians. *cough* How would we know....?

Question

... that they weren't Christians in name only?

You know, they may not have been True Christians™..... What do you think?

Answer 1

Thomas Jefferson surely wouldn't have been considered a True Christian based on the simple fact that he owned slaves. Many of the others wouldn't have been considered True Christians based on that, or the way they drank (many were heavy drinkers) or what they wrote about Christianity (if any of the Christians actually read their memoirs and letters, they would be screaming!)

No one could know they were True in the same sense that they don't know the person living down the street from them, claiming to be a Christian, is a True Christian. It's silly to even assume such a thing.

Answer 2

All you have to do is read their own writings and diaries to see and know that they were indeed Christians. See also That Old Deluder-Satan Act, the first common school law in America; the 1836 Reader, an old school textbook; The History of the United States of North America; From the Discovery of the Western World to the Present Day

Answer 3

They were Bible believing Christians. They wanted to worship God freely so they prefer the wilderness than to endure the religious persecutions at England.

Let me give you an instance, the Bible teaches slavery but you have to set them free in the jubilee. The colonists called it indentured servants. The colonists practiced it and when the time comes they were set free and were given provisions as the Bible instructed.

When people doesn't want to free slaves, problems occured, and the best people of America unfortunately fought over the issue with their blood.

Whenever God's Word was set aside something grievous would happen.

Study the US Constitution because lot of things were taken from the Bible or has Christian view.

Study deeply the US history and you will find that God helped Washington by a mist and other stalwarts of the Christian faith by giving them wisdom to rule a great nation...

Answer 4

There is no way that I am going to believe anything that is written about any individuals true personal motivations. This goes double for the people that our country has put on a pedestal.

even in my own life, I know people that call themselves Buddhists, but really they think, and act, just like Western religious people do (even regarding their "Buddhism").

I think that its true, that most everything is not as it seems once you really dig into it. History is probably a great example, especially the personnas of the historic figures.

Answer 5

I thought the founding fathers were a bunch of scoundrels who sailed from the Ilse of Dogs and settled in Chesapeake Bay thirteen years before the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. But I really don't see the point of your question. I'm sure there were some genuine God-Botherers in both settlements, as well as some fakes. Has anything changed?

Answer 6

George Washington, Draft First Inaugural Address, April 1789

“The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be abused by human depravity; and that they may even, in some instances be made subservient to the vilest purposes. Should, hereafter, those incited by the lust of power and prompted by the Supineness or venality of their Constituents, overleap the known barriers of this Constitution and violate the unalienable rights of humanity: it will only serve to shew, that no compact among men (however provident in its construction and sacred in its ratification) can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchm[en]t can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other.”

Answer 7

I think you are more than correct. I know for a fact that the colonies wanted religious freedom for more than just Christians. The founder of Rhode Island invited Jews to live there at a time when many places were turning them away, forcing them out of their countries, or putting them in ghettos.

Answer 8

I think David Bartlet is the last True Christian

even after he admitted his claims to christian founding father quotes were fake

Answer 9

The good thing about the US is the fact that our constitution does not allow anyone to legislate religion. All religions are welcome to have their customs and beliefs without censorship. We are who we want to be. This is the way the bible tells us that God works. He gives us the freedom to choose Him or not. God bless

Answer 10

Christianity is just a cover for the Egyptian Trinity. Worshiped behind fine church doors everywhere. This religion was/is reserved for the Elite.