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AMERICA’S FOUNDERS :AND THERE THOUGHTS ON RELIGION...CHRISTIANITY

AMERICA’S FOUNDERS

 The majority of America’s Founders were Deists, which means that they believed that the universe had a creator, but that it does not concern itself with the daily lives of humans and does not directly communGIONicate with humans, either by revelation or by sacred books.  
The founders spoke often of God, (Nature’s God or the God of Nature), but this was not the God of the Christian Bible. 
So what did the America’s Founders have to say about religion, Christianity, and the Separation of Church and State?



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George Washington
“If I could conceive that the general government might ever be so administered as to render the liberty of conscience insecure, I beg you will be persuaded, that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.”  – Letter to the United Baptist Chamber of Virginia, May 1789
“Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought to be deprecated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society.”   – Letter to Edward Newenham, October 20, 1792
“We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition … In this enlightened Age and in this Land of equal liberty it is our boast, that a man’s religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest Offices that are known in the United States.”  – Letter to the members of the New Church in Baltimore, January 27, 1793
“Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by the difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be depreciated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society.” – Letter to Edward Newenham, 1792
“Governor Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.” -Thomas Jefferson, in his private journal, Feb. 1800
Historian Barry Schwartz writes: “George Washington’s practice of Christianity was limited and superficial because he was not himself a Christian…  He repeatedly declined the church’s sacraments.  Never did he take communion, and when his wife, Martha, did, he waited for her outside the sanctuary…  Even on his deathbed, Washington asked for no ritual, uttered no prayer to Christ, and expressed no wish to be attended by His representative.” – Historian Barry Schwartz, New York Press, 1987, pp. 174-175]
“There is no mention of Jesus Christ anywhere in his extensive correspondence.”  – Paul F. Boller, Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1963, pp. 14-15
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