Cubiclerevolt said:Flash said:https://www.masters.edu/news/the-faith-of-the-founding-fathers.html#:~:text=There%20were%20Christians%20among%20the,to%20create%20a%20Christian%20nation.
There were Christians among the Founders – no deists – but the key Founders who were most responsible for the founding documents (Declaration of Independence and Constitution) and who had the most influence were theistic rationalists. They did not intend to create a Christian nation. Not a single Founding Father made such a claim in any piece of private correspondence or any document. If they had, it would be blazoned above the entrances of countless Christian schools and we would all be inundated with emails repeating it.
You're right and wrong.
John Adams - Christian
George Mason - Christian
Patrick Henry - Christian
John Hancock - Christian
And then theres this random deist running around saying things like this:
“The right to freedom being the gift of the Almighty...The rights of the colonists as Christians...may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institutions of The Great Law Giver and Head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament.”
After signing the Declaration of Independence, he proclaimed:
"We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come."
In his February, 1795 Proclamation for a Day of Public Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer, then Governor Adams said:
“That with true repentance and contrition of Heart, we may unitedly implore the forgiveness of our Sins, through the merits of Jesus Christ, and humbly supplicate our Heavenly Father, to grant us the aids of his Grace, for the amendment of our Hearts and Lives, and vouchsafe his smiles upon our temporal concerns.”
And finally, these are the words in his Last Will and Testament:
“Principally, and first of all, I resign my soul to the Almighty Being who gave it, and my body I commit to the dust, relying on the merits of Jesus Christ for the pardon of my sins.”
The founders were incredibly wise men who knew that a theocracy will not work however, our rule of law, our principles, all biblically based to create a constitutional republic to which all could benefit from by not having a state endorsed or sponsored religion.
Let it be clear. The only theocracy I will live under is that of the Messiah.
Huge AMEN to that!