2007-11-14 03:36:02 · 19 answers · asked by This Virus Called Language 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Depends who you're considering, the most famous ones were (Jefferson, Franklin, Washington), but most of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were Christian.
2007-11-14 03:39:06 · answer #1 · answered by Eleventy 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Completely untrue. Many were deists, and some seem to have been atheists. Relatively few were Christian.
You can find all kinds of web sites that spin it in either direction. The only way to satisfy this question for yourself is to go to the library and look up all the books which contain the letters the various founding fathers wrote to their friends and family and fellow politicians. Read their own words, as many as you can, and you decide how they strike you. It's pretty obvious to me where most of them were on the spectrum of religious belief.
2007-11-14 03:40:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. All of our founding fathers were Deists. Deist is one who doesn't believe in a supernatural being. This country was NOT founded on Christianity.
2007-11-14 03:41:18 · answer #3 · answered by wolfkarew 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Some were, some were not. Some were Christians, others were not. It does not matter what the Founder's religions were as they did not influence the Constitution with their religions. The Constitution was written to allow the coexistance of all religions in the USA without preference to one religion over another. Politics and religion equal fascism.
2007-11-14 03:40:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, there was at least one deist. Jefferson, I think. (And arguably more than that, but one is enough to disprove that statement.)
And there were many theists. But in any case, the important thing about them was that they understood that religion should not be in control of the government or vice versa.
2007-11-14 03:38:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
(Thomas Jefferson)
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
(Thomas Jefferson)
2007-11-14 03:42:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They, like most groups of people, were a mixture of various beliefs and attitudes towards religions.
2007-11-14 03:40:07 · answer #7 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a couple were deists, the rest were christians and masons
2007-11-14 03:39:39 · answer #8 · answered by 2009 time to shine 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If they had access to the science we have today, most of them would have been atheists.
2007-11-14 03:39:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
That is way off. Where did that come from?
2007-11-14 03:39:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋