Faith of Our Fathers - The religion of our Founders

It is with God's blessing that we have thrived.

Congress shall make no law regarding the establishment of religion (No government mandated religion) or prohibiting the free exercise thereof (No restriction of religious expression).

For some reason, the latter has been left out.

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He might have found more eveidence if he had delved into the opinions of the colonels and captains in the Continental army or to the middle-ranking Whigs. The most determined Patriots were the Presbyterian and Congregationalist ministers. Among the rank and file, the Baptists were almost uniformly Patriot. They as much as General Washington, were "Founding Fathers."

Just a few factual thoughts...

John Quincy Adams
Vice-President of the American Bible Society; Member of the Massachusetts Bible Society
(Report of the Executive Committee of the Bible Society of Massachusetts, Prepared for the Anniversary of the Society, June 4, 1818 (Boston: John Eliot, 1818), p. 7.)

Abraham Baldwin (Signer of the Constitution)
Chaplain in the American Revolution for two years.
(Parker C. Thompson, The United States Army Chaplaincy: from its European Antecedents to 1791 (Washington D.C.: Office of the Chief of Chaplains, Dept. of the Army, 1978), Vol. I, p. 246)

Joel Barlow (Diplomat under Washington and Adams)
Chaplain in the American Revolution for three years.
(Parker C. Thompson, The United States Army Chaplaincy: from its European Antecedents to 1791 (Washington D.C.: Office of the Chief of Chaplains, Dept. of the Army, 1978), Vol. I, p. 246)

Joseph Bloomfield (Governor of New Jersey)
Member of the New Jersey Bible Society
(The Second Report of the managers of the new Jersey Bible Society, Read before the Society at Their Annual Meeting at New Brunswick, August 27, 1811 (Trenton: George Sherman, 1811), p. 11)

Elias Boudinot (President of the Continental Congress)
Founder and First President of the American Bible Society, President of the New Jersey Bible Society, Member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, member of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
(Constitution of the American Bible Society (New York: Printed for the American Bible Society, 1816), p. 7.)
(Address of the New Jersey Bible Society to the Publick: with Appendix, Containing the Constitution of Said Society (New Brunswick: Abraham Blauvelt, 1810), P. 15)
(Report of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1835), P. 5)
(Rev. Eliphalet Pearson, A Sermon Delivered in Boston Before the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, November 27, 1811 (Cambridge: Hilliard & Metcalf, 1811), p. 36)

James Bowdoin (Governor of Massachusetts)
Member of the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and Others
(Abiel Holmes, A Discourse Delivered Before the Society for Propagating the Gospel Among the Indians and Others in North America, November 3, 1808 (Boston: Farrand, Mallory, and Co., 1808), p. 66)

John Brooks (Governor of Massachusetts, Revolutionary General)
President of the Middlesex County Bible Society

James Brown (U.S. Senator, and Diplomat)
Original Officer of the American Bible Society

James Burrill, Jr. (Chief-Justice of Rhode Island Supreme Court & U. S. Senator)
President of the Providence Auxiliary Bible Society

Dewitt Clinton ( Governor of New York, U. S. Senator, Introduce the 12th Amendment)
Manager and Vice-President of the American Bible Society

Francis Dana (Member of the Continental Congress, Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, U.S. Minister to Russia)
Member of the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and Others

John Davenport (Revolutionary Officer; U.S. Congress)
Member of the Missionary Society of Connecticut

Samuel Dexter (Secretary of War under Adams, U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator)
Member of the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and Others

Jonas Galusha (Governor of Vermont)
Original Officer of the American Bible Society

William Gaston (Chief-Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, U. S. Representative)
Original Officer of the American Bible Society

Charles Goldsborough (Governor of Maryland, U. S. Representative)
Vice-President of the American Bible Society

William Gray (Lt. Governor of Massachusetts, U.S. Senator)
Original Officer of the American Bible Society

Felix Grundy (U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Senator, U.S. Congressman)
Original Officer of the American Bible Society

Alexander Hamilton (Signer of the Constitution)
Proposed formation of the Christian Constitutional Society to spread Christian Government to other nations.

John Hamilton (Major-General in the Revolution, U.S. Congress)
Member of the New Jersey Bible Society

John Jay (Original Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court)
President of the American Bible Society, Member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

William Jones (Governor of Rhode Island)
Original Officer of the American Bible Society

Francis Scott Key (Attorney, Author of the Star Spangled Banner)
Manager and Vice-President of the American Sunday School Union

Rufus King (Signer of the Constitution)
Selected as Manager of the American Bible Society

Andrew Kirkpatrick (Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court)
Vice-President of the New Jersey Bible Society, Vice-President of the American Bible Society

Marquis De Lafayette (Revolutionary General)
Member of the American Sunday School Union

John Langdon (Signer of the Constitution)
Vice-President of the American Bible Society
Benjamin Lincoln (Revolutionary General, Lt. Governor of Massachusetts)
Member of the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and Others

John Lowell (Revolutionary Officer, Member of the Continental Congress)
Member of the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and Others

George Madison (Governor of Kentucky)
Original Officer of the American Bible Society

John Marshall (Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Secretary of State, Revolutionary General)
Vice-President of the American Bible Society, officer in the American Sunday School Union

James McHenry (Signer of the Constitution)
President of the Baltimore Bible Society

David Lawrence Morril (Governor of New Hampshire, U.S. Senator)
Vice-President of the American Bible Society, Manager of the American Sunday School Union.

Joseph Nourse (Revolutionary Officer, U.S. Treasury)
Original Officer of the American Bible Society

Robert Treat Paine (Signer of the Constitution)
Military Chaplain

Albion Parris (Governor of Maine)
Manager of the American Sunday School Union.

William Phillips (Lt. Governor of Massachusetts for 11 terms)
President of the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians, President of the Massachusetts Bible Society, a member of the American Board of Foreign Missions, Vice-President of the American Bible Society, President of the American Society for Educating Pious Youth for the Gospel Ministry

Charles Cotesworth Pickney (Signer of the Constitution)
President of the Charleston Bible Society, Vice-President of the American Bible Society

Thomas Posey (Revolutionary Officer, Governor of Indiana, U.S. Senator)
Original Officer of the American Bible Society

Rufus Putnam (Revolutionary General, Federal Judge)
President of the Ohio Bible Society

Benjamin Rush (Signer of the Constitution)
Founder and Manager of the Philadelphia Bible Society

Isaac Shelby (Revolutionary Officer, Governor of Kentucky)
Original Officer of the American Bible Society

John Cotton Smith (Governor of Connecticut, U.S. Congressman)
President of Litchfield County Foreign Missionary Society,, first President of the Connecticut Bible Society, President of the American Bible Society, President of the American Board of Foreign Missions

Caleb Strong (Constitutional Convention, U.S. Senator, Governor of Massachusetts)
Vice- President of the American Bible Society

James Sullivan (Governor of Massachusetts, U.S. Congressman)
Member of the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and Others

Increase Sumner (Governor of Massachusetts)
Member of the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and Others

William Tilghman (Federal Judge, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Supreme Court)
Original Officer of the American Bible Society

Smith Thompson (U.S. Supreme Court, Secretary of the Navy)
Vice- President of the American Bible Society

Daniel Tompkins (Governor of New York, Vice President of the U.S.)
Vice- President of the American Bible Society

John Treadwell (Governor of Connecticut, Member of Continental Congress)
Member of the Missionary Society of Connecticut

Robert Troup (Federal Judge, Secretary of War)
President of the American Bible Society

Peter Vroom (Governor of New Jersey, U.S. Congressman)
Vice-President of the American Bible Society, Member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

Bushrod Washington (U.S. Supreme Court Justice)
President of the American Bible Society, Vice- President of the American Sunday School Union

William Wert (U.S. Attorney General under 2 Presidents)
Manager of the American Sunday School Union, Vice- President of the American Bible Society

Thomas Worthington (Governor of Ohio, U.S. Senator)
Original Officer of the American Bible Society

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Thank you J

A deliberate misreading of the first amdendment is a favorite tool of Democrats, secular humanists - so-called - and others seeking to curtail the expression of religious beliefs in public life, just as a deliberate misreading of the second amendment is a favorite tool of those who would deny the American people their right to keep and bear arms.

Anyone could author a work exploring the combined religious convictions of the authors and signers of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States of America, but none is more reveling than the latter document, the law of the land, in that it makes no mention of God. Had the authors began the Preamble with a phrase like, "By the grace of God", they would have accomplished part of what the Preamble set out as a goal, "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity".

It is with God's blessing that we have thrived.

God knows the plans that he has for us. Plans to prosper us and not to harm us; plans to give us hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11
Now here is what I got to say about it all:

First Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;

If my kid says a prayer in school, does that prayer establish a Religion?

OK, Just in case a liberal is lurkin': No, it takes an act of Congress to establish a Religion.

If you tell my kid that Prayer is not allowed, has a law been made that limits the free exercise thereof?

OK, Just in case a liberal is lurkin': YES! A manger on Public property does not establish a religion. A CHRISTmas tree on public property does not establish a Religion. Tell people they can not put a Christmas tree up and you just limited the free exercise thereof. As long as people are not hurting people, then let people freely exercise their religion. That is our National Religion: Freedom of Religion. Not Freedom from Religion.

Hard to get all this through a Commie liberals head.
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"Faith of our fathers,
We will love
Both friend and foe
In all our strife
And preach Thee too, as
Love knows how
By kindly word and virtuous life."