Founders were Deists.
I want to know what her path to citizenship is.
“We look at their church membership primarily, and also at their correspondence. Back then church membership was a big deal. In other words, to be a member of a church back then, it wasn’t just a matter of sitting in the pew or attending once in a while. This was a time when church membership entailed a sworn public confession of biblical faith, adherence, and acknowledgment of the doctrines of that particular church.
Of those 55 Founding Fathers, we know what their sworn public confessions were. Twenty-eight were Episcopalians, eight were Presbyterians, seven were Congregationalists, two were Lutheran, two were Dutch Reformed, two were Methodist, two were Roman Catholic, one is unknown, and only three were deists—Williamson, Wilson, and Franklin.
To heap more fuel on the fire of my point, of the 55, the Episcopalians, the Presbyterians, the Congregationalists, and the Dutch Reformed (which make up 45 of the 55) were Calvinists, for goodness sake! In other words, these weren’t just Christians, these were among the most extreme and doctrinally strict Christians around. Of the 55 delegates, virtually all of them were deeply committed Christians. “
“Founders were Deists.”
Wrong! Only a handful were.
“I want to know what her path to citizenship is.”
I want to know where that spray bottle of Troll-B-Gon went to...
- JP
No founder was simply deistic.
They were all Christian, by their own declarations, and Ben Franklin toured Europe after the ratification declaring that the nation had been, in his own words, “founded on the gospel of the Christian Bible.”
Liars may differ.
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