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George Washington was most certainly was a fundamentalist in the sense that he believed in the biblical identity of Jesus Christ and in the Blood Atonement of Christ. His prayer journals reveal his belief that he considered himself condemned and under judgment were it not for the Redeeming Work of Jesus Christ. Washington believed in the in-errancy of the Scriptures.

In my last post I stated that there has been (especially since the 1960s) and is an effort to rewrite the history of the period of our War for Independence to exclude or marginalize information on the influence of biblicist Christianity on the founding generation of the United States.

Revisionism is very difficult to get away with, however, since there are also well-established organizations that have also, for the past 30 or more years, been compiling whole libraries clearly revealing Christianity’s influence on that period. One such organization is THE FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN CHRISTIAN EDUCATION (F.A.C.E.) in Chesapeake, Virginia. Anyone can check their web site.

www.face.net

I feel certain that there are many who read and contribute to FR who have already spent some time with F.A.C.E. sources.

There is also another very good source (among dozens), PRAIRIE FIRE PRESS (Stearns-Marshall Publications). There you can order AMERICA IN CRIMSON RED, which covers much of the late 18th Century. There is also a 60 minute, well-documented CD on the relationship between John Leland (with the Virgina Baptists) and James Madison. This is a major factor in the passing of the Bill of Rights. Of course, no government school curriculum is going to present this, and I doubt that most college history courses pay much attention to this anymore. That web site is —