Archive for Religion and the Founders
Founding Father's Quote (belated) Friday!
(My my. Yesterday was Friday? So soon? My apologies!) Here is today’s Favorite Founder’s Quote Friday on a Saturday. And today’s quote comes from our first President (that is, first president under the Constitution of the United States), General George Washington. It comes from his original draft of his First Inaugural Address, but the manuscript [...]
Founding Father's Quote Friday: John Adams
Well, ladies and gentlemen, as I promised last week, here is the first of “Favorite Founder’s Quote Friday”! Today’s quote comes from John Adams, one of the greatest and most influential Founders. The role he played, the honesty and virtue which marked his character, and the consistency of his convictions make him a greater statesman [...]
Reviewing the Testimonies of the Reverends Wilson and Abercrombie
Many of the witnesses that have been called forth from years past to testify in favor of George Washington’s skepticism are the Reverends James Renwick Wilson and James Abercrombie. Their testimonies that Washington was an unbeliever are usually used as unequivocal support that he was indeed an unbeliever. These testimonies are usually used to contradict [...]
Response concerning Washington's Faith
If you want to start a lively and heated discussion, you can talk about religion, politics, abstract philosophy, or history. EHT at History is Elementary has done just that, by bringing up the controversy going on in public schools, over the issue of displaying a famous painting of General Washington kneeling in prayer at Valley [...]
The First Prayer in the United States Congress
The first prayer in Congress was offered in the early days of the First Continental Congress, on September 7, 1774, after this body had heard that the British had laid laid siege to the town of Boston Massachusetts to repay the “rebels” for the Boston Tea Party. Below are presented excerpts from the Journals of [...]
Revisionism: How It Works, Why Its Claims Are False, and What Can Be Done to Stop It
Revisionism, though not a harsh-sounding word, is bringing about harsh consequences in our nation. Revisionism, in the negative sense of the word, is the manipulation and distortion of accurate historical record and evidence, usually to fit a selfish political agenda. This is precisely what is happening in the United States. One of the areas in [...]
The Founding Fathers: Perspective on Their Roles
As I have already said in previous posts, the names we usually associate with the term “founding father” are George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton. These Founders have been termed the “key founders” by many, with the addition of several others to the list: Gouverneur Morris (the penman [...]
Re: George Washington — Christian or Deist?
I have never gotten a comment on the Founders posts of this blog, but I did get a response on my latest post: George Washington: Christian or Deist? It is a very controversial question. Perhaps none of the Founders’ faith is so disputed than Washington’s, understandably, since he is the “father of our country.” The [...]
George Washington: Christian or Deist?
The debate continues. One side of it claims that George Washington was a Christian believer while the other side zealously asserts that Washington was a deist. The argument has gone back and forth over the years, and because of a lack of knowledge of the most important components of the question, the common belief of [...]
What You Never Learned in History Class about Tom Paine
I am quite sure that the public schools and the media have insured that my readers have heard about Thomas Paine, so my introduction will not be long. Thomas Paine was born in 1737 in England. He immigrated to America in 1774, when the disputes between the American colonists and the English government were escalating. [...]
