Try to weasel around these quotes from the Founding Fathers:
“The Bible should be read in our schools in preference to all other books from its containing the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public temporal happiness.”
Benjamin Rush
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
“…..should not the Bible regain the place
it once held as a school book?
Fisher Ames
Author of the First Amendment
“The Bible is a book worth more than all the other books that were ever printed.”
Patrick Henry
”The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next.”
John Jay
First Supreme Court Chief-Justice
“The Declaration of Independence first organized
the social compact on the foundation
of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth…
(and) laid the cornerstone of human government
upon the precepts of Christianity.”
John Quincy Adams
Sixth President of the United States
“You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ…..Congress will do everything they can to assist you in this wise intention.”
George Washington
“The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.”
- John Adams
“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.”
Patrick Henry
“Try to weasel around these quotes from the Founding Fathers:”
Thank you. You’ve just confirmed that the Founding Fathers were devout Christians. Only 1 was a deist: Thomas Jefferson. But what you’re completely missing here is the fact that the Framers never put one word of God or Christianity into the U.S. Constitution, even though most were deeply religious. Many framers, like Washington, were Episcopalians, some of which were Vestrymen or Clergymen.
To understand why they left these items out, the answer is simple. They NEVER wanted the government to be a Christian organization, nor practice Christian beliefs, nor endorse God or Jesus, or any religious figure at all. They wanted clear separation between the two, removing all religious tests, endorsements, or mention of God or Christ from anything to do with the supreme law. Instead, they used the Bible, among other legal references, to carefully craft the Constitution in order to eliminate religious endoctrination. Period. Even when Benjamin Franklin wanted it clearly included into the Constitution, all the others rejected his requests.
It wasn’t until the first Congress that there was even a Bill of Rights, so the framers placed freedom of religion below that of the core legal system of the federal government. Now, at the state level, this discussion was completely different.
You can’t have it both ways. Which one is it???