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To: VirginiaConstitutionalist

Eisenhower was JW???? I did not know that.


1,341 posted on 01/26/2008 3:23:17 PM PST by GOPPachyderm
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To: GOPPachyderm

This is a lie espoused by Romnulens, to make his Mormonism somehow less offensive. Eisenhowers PARENTS were JW.

Eisenhower’s family originally belonged to the local River Brethren sect of the Mennonites. However, when Ike was five years old, his parents became followers of the WatchTower Society, whose members later took the name Jehovah’s Witnesses.

All of the Eisenhower boys left the Jehovah’s Witness religion when adults and openly opposed major aspects of Watchtower teaching.

Eisenhower was baptized, confirmed, and became a communicant in the Presbyterian Church in a single ceremony on February 1, 1953, just 12 days after his first inauguration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower

Eisenhower wasn’t a practicing JW. In fact, if you judge by ones parents then I am perhaps the most Mormon poster on all of FR.


1,344 posted on 01/26/2008 3:31:57 PM PST by colorcountry (To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: GOPPachyderm
Eisenhower was JW???? I did not know that.

Try Google®

You will find he was BORN into a JW family, but when he was old enough, he got out.

1,431 posted on 01/27/2008 4:17:22 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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