~”Hey II, tant - why don’t you post a link supporting the assertion that Eisenhower was JW when he was elected President.”~
How can you be asking me this? You said yourself he didn’t convert until 12 days after his election?
Alright, if you insist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower#Religion
No tanti, show me where and when he last attended a JW meeting. Can you do it? All you have shown me is when he became a Presbyterian.
Here is a pro-JW article. Even IT states that Ida (Ike’s mom) was JW, but we had left many, many years before he ever considered running for POTUS. http://www.seanet.com/~raines/eisenhower.html
So let me ask you this. What constitutes “membership” to you? Did you consider him a member because his mother was a member? Is it because he attended some services as a child. Even though he left the JWs and was shunned by them, you consider his still a JW. It’s a curious thing, my FRiend. The J-dubs didn’t consider him a member. HE didn’t consider himself a member. But you DO. Why?
I do, for some MUST be reading challenged.
David Jacob Eisenhower's paternal ancestor immigrated to the United States in 1741 when Hans Nicholas Eisenhauer emigrated from Odenwald, Germany. He was probably of Lutheran or Reformed Protestant practice. Eisenhower's mother, Ida E. Eisenhower, previously a member of the River Brethren sect of the Mennonites, joined the Watchtower Society (now more commonly known as Jehovah's Witnesses) between 1895 and 1900, when Eisenhower was a child.[6] The Eisenhower home served as the local meeting hall from 1896 to 1915.
Jehovah’s Witnesses are opposed to killing and doctrines such as militarism. Eisenhower's ties to the group were weakened when he joined the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1911. By 1915, his parents' home no longer served as the meeting hall. All the men in the household abandoned the Witnesses as adults. Some hid their previous affiliation.[7][8] At his death in 1942, Eisenhower's father was given funeral rites as though he remained a Jehovah's Witness. Eisenhower's mother continued as an active Jehovah's Witness until her death. Despite their differences in religious beliefs, Eisenhower enjoyed a close relationship with his mother.
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.[9] He is the only president known to have undertaken these rites while in office. Eisenhower was instrumental in the addition of the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954, and the 1956 adoption of "In God We Trust" as the motto of the US, and its 1957 introduction on paper currency. In his retirement years, he was a member of the Gettysburg Presbyterian Church.[10] The chapel at his presidential library is intentionally inter-denominational.