The Founders Were Not Christian?

Question

Do You Agree or Disagree, Why?

I Disagree because of what they said.
http://freethought.mbdojo.com/foundingfathers.html

I meant I agree sorry.

Answer 1

I disagree.

Answer 2

If the founding fathes were no Christians, why did George Washington kiss the Bible when he was sworn in as president? Why was there a national day of Prayer and Thanksgiving (now shortened to thanksgiving)? The truth is they were all very pious christians, they were just sick and tired of the state running the church and forcing everyone into that religion. Whoever wrote that is an atheist who is extremely ignorant.

Answer 3

Lets put it in perspective. It must have been difficult knowing so little about space and the universe in the 1700's. No accurate dating of fossils, no electricity the list goes on and on. So many reasons to believe in a higher power because so many pieces of the puzzle were not yet discovered. Have we figured anything out in 300 years?

Our for fathers certainly know religion could and would be used to conqur and divide, this is what they did not want to happen despite the lack of knowledge at the time about how we came about.

Answer 4

Columbus was!
Spain was a Christian nation!
Spain supplied him with the ships!
But, who would sail with a man, when the world was deemed Flat?
I really don't think he sailed with the Best of Crew
I think that most of his crew had a choice between the Gallows or the Sea
If they came back
They were Free!

Your Question!
at-least One

PS- The Settlers were! (The Founders)
Check out some of the sites about Washington DC Monuments & Structures and you well fine a reference to God
ONE NATION UNDER ONE GOD!
GOOGLE- ALUNMINUM CAP OF THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT - SEE WHAT IS INSCRIBED ON IT
ALSO READ ABOUT IT'S INTERIOR
AND THEN TELL ME THAT OUR FOUNDERS WEREN'T CHRISTIAN

Answer 5

Your source nicely leaves out the quotes that these men made concerning the virtues of religion.

I think your source also oversimplfies the Diest claim also. Many of these men also claim that Jesus Christ was their Savior as well. Your source wants to stay in the confines of public documents, you need to study their letters to friends, associates, and family for a better understanding of their faith.

They also beleived that men must depend on themselves, not a government or regilious groups, to solve their problems. They were very apposed to any one specific Christian group claiming the colonies for themselves, as they saw occuring in Europe and other countires. They chose their words wisely.

Answer 6

Obviously some were deists. I suppose deism and contemporary Christianity are irreconcilable, but that wasn't necessarily the case back then. It's really a matter of semantics-where does natural theology end and deism begin?

Answer 7

Clearly the founding fathers believed in judeo-Christian ethics, morals and a Creator, whether they were Christian or not.

I think I'll leave the hair-splitting to the Liberals, because it's entertaining to see admitted atheists telling other people what it means to be a Christian.

Answer 8

Who cares? I mean really who cares. What difference does it make?

This is like the argument over whether the Greeks stole all their philosophy from the Egyptians, who stole it from the Ethiopians - meaning all of Western thought owes itself to sub-Saharan Africa. So what?

Does it somehow give Christians some special and exalted place in America if the founders also believed the bastard son of a ghost can save use from sin?

Doesn't that cut against the whole grain of equality.

Who cares?

Answer 9

take a moment and review article six of the Constitution of the United States of America. in particular, the last sentence of that article. if, as you suggest, they were christian, why would they clearly spell out the potential of secular, non-christian government?

Answer 10

They were not all christians, but they were very spiritual and virtuos, Ben Franklin even wrote the Art of Virtue, and he was a deist