February 19, 2022
The Founders were NOT Deists or Atheists
Warner Todd Huston
FACT: The American founders WERE NOT "mostly atheists and deists." Indeed, FEW can be described that way.
Did we have a few founders who were somewhat irreligious? Sure. Gouverneur Morris, Franklin, to some extent Madison and Jefferson were all not orthodox Christians. But the rest were all very religious. In fact, many were outright members of the clergy and were Christian theologians.
Was "taxation without representation"
Lynette Wyrick adds:
Of the 56 who signed the Declaration of Independence, 29 actually held seminary degrees and more than half of the 56 held Bible School degrees according to David Barton.
FACT: The American founders WERE NOT "mostly atheists and deists." Indeed, FEW can be described that way.
Did we have a few founders who were somewhat irreligious? Sure. Gouverneur Morris, Franklin, to some extent Madison and Jefferson were all not orthodox Christians. But the rest were all very religious. In fact, many were outright members of the clergy and were Christian theologians.
People love
to point to Jefferson, for instance. But he put "the year of our Lord"
in official documents, used federal funds to pay for Christian
missionaries to minister to the Indians, signed onto the idea of
turning the Capitol bldgs into churches (and attended church in those
rooms), and wanted to use the story of the Israelites as part of our
national seal. And in his famed letter about the separation of church
and state, he cited the separation to STOP government for affecting
religion, not to eliminate religion from government.
And
if the founders all hated religion so much, why did all the states but
one -- states that these same founders helped create -- originally have
state-sponsored
Was "taxation without representation"
Lynette Wyrick adds:
Of the 56 who signed the Declaration of Independence, 29 actually held seminary degrees and more than half of the 56 held Bible School degrees according to David Barton.
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Very, very good!
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at February 19, 2022 10:21 PM (kRAxH)
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Warner nailed it, didn't he Dana!
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at February 20, 2022 12:06 PM (SuBvw)
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He sure did. Another point is that most, if not all, of the "institutions of higher learning" that were established in this country at the beginning were founded by one or another church. How far they have fallen!
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at February 20, 2022 11:55 PM (kRAxH)
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Yep. And so many of those have become God-hating radical leftist entities (like Harvard).
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at February 21, 2022 09:19 AM (xCAqu)
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Of the 56 who signed the Declaration of Independence, 29 actually held seminary degrees and more than half of the 56 held Bible School degrees according to David Barton.
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