Do conservatives think Puritans and the Founding Fathers were the same thing?

Question

Ha, ha, maybe you all had best get an education. Allow this article to be your introductory lesson:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tina-dupuy/the-puritans-were-not-the_b_67586.html

Answer 1

I have seen comments from some that obviously do, but most seem to understand the difference.

Answer 2

The Puritans preceded the Founding Fathers via a century or so. The Puritans weren't seeking to initiate a brand new u . s . a . in basic terms to get faraway from non secular persecution. it particularly is solid to work out how proud you're which you ultimately found out some American historic previous. Congratulations, yet we already knew that. .

Answer 3

This peice was historically correct. The puritans were trying to establish there own homeland..But this is more than a century before the declaration of independence and the establishment of our consitituion.

I highly recomend the following book for those that would like to have a more intimate understanding of the colonization of New England. It is

Mayflower:
A Story of Courage, Community, and War
By Nathaniel Philbrick

http://www.nathanielphilbrick.com/mayflower/index.html

Answer 4

As is the mode these days, that piece was long on rhetoric and short on substance. I would like to have seen more actual documentation and less smarmy quipping. But, you've got to play to your audience. In this case, it's a bunch of self-absorbed, pseudo-intellectual, wannabe pundits.

Answer 5

Conservatives are individual people. If YOUR education leads you to believe that anyone knows what a large group of people think, then maybe you need to do some thinking.

Answer 6

I don't need your article, all I know is that our "Founding Fathers" were wealthy white slave owners who said all men are created equal.

Answer 7

That article is what we call a straw man. it is where you make an argument against someone by stating what their argument is.

Those who acknowledge history and the religious convictions of our founders know that there is a difference between the "puritans" and the other colonists of the New World. Maryland is not named after Mary, Queen of Scotts, but is named after the Virgin Mary, mother of Christ, and was the 1st Brittish/Catholic settlement in the New World. Different CHRISTIAN religions came to America to found it.

Read the declaration of independence and see the relgious foundation of liberty for this nation that our founders believed in their core. They recognized that human rights and freedoms had to exists outside the state to be innate, and they were heavily influenced by the writings of George Mason and John Locke. To state that George Mason was not religious is an eggregious assault on history.

Here are some great quotes of our founders.

“What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.”
--George Washington in a speech to the Delaware Indian Chiefs May 12, 1779

"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and Bible." - George Washington

"It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors." - George Washington

“ The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principals of Christianity… I will avow that I believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”
• “[July 4th] ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.”
–John Adams in a letter written to Abigail on the day the Declaration was approved by Congress

“ Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating their little boys and girls, inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity… and leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system.” [October 4, 1790]

" Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure...are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments." [Source: To James McHenry on November 4, 1800.]

“ God governs in the affairs of man. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured in the Sacred Writings that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this. I also believe that, without His concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel” –Constitutional Convention of 1787 | original manuscript of this speech

“ Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” Source: October 12, 1816. The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay, Henry P. Johnston, ed., (New York: Burt Franklin, 1970), Vol. IV, p. 393.

In 1812, President Madison signed a federal bill which economically aided the Bible Society of Philadelphia in its goal of the mass distribution of the Bible.
“ An Act for the relief of the Bible Society of Philadelphia” Approved February 2, 1813 by Congress

At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, James Madison proposed the plan to divide the central government into three branches. He discovered this model of government from the Perfect Governor, as he read Isaiah 33:22;
“For the LORD is our judge,
the LORD is our lawgiver,
the LORD is our king;
He will save us.”

Article 22 of the constitution of Delaware (1776)
Required all officers, besides taking an oath of allegiance, to make and subscribe to the following declaration:
• "I, [name], do profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ His only Son, and in the Holy Ghost, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration."

Our founders were Christian, and sought to make a nation of laws, goverened by Christian people, with temperence, faith, and love. Though faith in Christ was not required for participation and citizenship, the founders believed that ours was a nation founded on the principles of natural law consistent with the Holy Bible.

Answer 8

no
neither was the church of England and The Catholic Church the same.