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quasicurus
2005-10-06, 15:15
"One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian."

--The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1968, p. 420

http://thewaronfaith.com/founding_fathers.htm

ArgonPlasma2000
2005-10-06, 15:59
I dont get it...

bombtrack
2005-10-06, 16:45
That pretty.... revealing

everything and nothing
2005-10-06, 19:20
how very fradulent of them

Elephantitis Man
2005-10-07, 02:14
quote:By 1778, George Washington had so often witnessed God's intervention that on August 20, he wrote Thomas Nelson that:

The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.

George Washington's letter of August 20, 1778 to Brig. General Thomas Nelson, in John C. Fitzpatrick, editor, The Writings of George Washington, Vol. XII (Washinton: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1932), p. 343.

quote:While encamped on the banks of a river, Washington was approached by Delaware Indian chiefs who desired that their youth be trained in American schools. In Washington's response, he first told them that "Congress... will look on them as on their own children." That is, we would train their children as if they were our own. He then commended the chiefs for their decision:

You do well to wish to learn our arts and our ways of life and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you a greater and happier people than you are. Congress will do everything they can to assist you in this wise intention.

According to George Washington, what students would learn in American schools "above all" was "the religion of Jesus Christ."

George Washington's Speech to Delaware Indian Chiefs on May 12, 1779, in John C. Fitzpatrick, editor, The Writings of George Washington, Vol. XV (Washinton: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1932), p. 55.

quote: We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.

- James Madison

You speak lies.

Issue313
2005-10-07, 23:53
^^^ Pwnage.

And why would anyone want to be an orthodox christian, especially people as smart and freethinking as the Founding Fathers?

quasicurus
2005-10-08, 01:45
quote:Originally posted by Issue313:

And why would anyone want to be an orthodox christian, especially people as smart and freethinking as the Founding Fathers?

The Founding Fathers are Masons too.