Posted on 05/29/2005 3:58:59 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
I'm not making judgements about it, I just wish to know the plain facts. I think these groups are as active as ever, though completely non-transparent.
I guess I'm jealous of them too.
Oh, nice tagline you have there. ;^)
Keep on studying, and asking questions, LLB. I've a feeling you'll go far.
I'll be looking out for it. I'm sure it'll be informative.
LLB...Another fyi here.
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Wonderful listing of quotes. Thanks for posting.
I'm not sure whether you're ranting or asking a question. As a young man in Colonial Williamsburg, ThJ was required by law to attend Church on Sunday morning. Even the Jew (forget his name now) who lived in Williamsburg had to, and did, attend.
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No, most were Christians.
"In terms of population alone, a high percentage of the pre-revolutionary
American colonies were of Puritan-Calvinist background. There were around
three million persons in the thirteen original colonies by 1776, and
perhaps as many as two-thirds of these came from some kind of Calvinist or
Puritan connection" (Douglas F. Kelly, The Emergence of Liberty in the
Modern World — (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 1992), p. 120.
"The U.S. Constitution is a Calvinist's document through and through."
And because of that, they made sure that in America, one man’s liberty will
not depend upon another man’s (religious) conscience (as in Europe)!
Dr. George Bancroft, arguably the most prominent American historian of the
19th century — and not a Calvinist — stated:
"He who will not honor the memory and respect the influence of Calvin knows
but little of he origen of American liberty"
The 55 Framers (from North to South):
John Langdon, Congregationalist (Calvinist)
Nicholas Gilman, Congregationalist (Calvinist)
Elbridge Gerry, Episcoplian (Calvinist)
Rufus King, Episcopalian (Calvinist)
Caleb Strong, Congregationalist (Calvinist)
Nathaniel Gorham, Congregationalist (Calvinist)
Roger Sherman, Congregationalist (Calvinist)
William Samuel Johnson, Episcopalian (Calvinist)
Oliver Ellsworth, Congregationalist (Calvinist)
Alexander Hamilton, Episcopalian (Calvinist)
John Lansing, Dutch Reformed (Calvinist)
Robert Yates, Dutch Reformed (Calvinist)
William Patterson, Presbyterian (Calvinist)
William Livingston, Presbyterian (Calvinist)
Jonathan Dayton, Episcopalian (Calvinist)
David Brearly, Episcopalian (Calvinist)
William Churchill Houston, Presbyterian (Calvinist)
Benjamin Franklin, Christian in his youth, Deist in later years, then back
to his Puritan background in his old age (his June 28, 1787 prayer at the
Constitutional Convention was from no "Deist")
Robert Morris, Episcopalian, (Calvinist)
James Wilson, probably a Deist
Gouverneur Morris, Episcopalian (Calvinist)
Thomas Mifflin, Lutheran (Calvinist-lite)
George Clymer, Quaker turned Episcopalian (Calvinist)
Thomas FitzSimmons, Roman Catholic
Jared Ingersoll, Presbyterian (Calvinist)
John Dickinson, Quaker turned Episcopalian (Calvinist)
George Read, Episcopalian, (Calvinist)
Richard Bassett, Methodist
Gunning Bedford, Presbyterian (Calvinist)
Jacob Broom, Lutheran
Luther Martin, Episcopalian, (Calvinist)
Daniel Carroll, Roman Catholic
John Francis Mercer, Episcopalian (Calvinist)
James McHenry, Presbyterian (Calvinist)
Daniel of St Thomas Jennifer, Episcopalian (Calvinist)
George Washington, Episcopalian (Calvinist; no, he was not a deist)
James Madison, Episcopalian (Calvinist)
George Mason, Episcopalian (Calvinist)
Edmund Jennings Randolph, Episcopalian (Calvinist)
James Blair, Jr., Episcopalian (Calvinist)
James McClung, ?
George Wythe, Episcopalian (Calvinist)
William Richardson Davie, Presbyterian (Calvinist)
Hugh Williamson, Presbyterian, possibly later became a Deist
William Blount, Presbyterian (Calvinist)
Alexander Martin, Presbyterian/Episcopalian (Calvinist)
Richard Dobbs Spaight, Jr., Episcopalian (Calvinist)
John Rutledge, Episcopalian (Calvinist)
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, III, Episcopalian (Calvinist)
Abraham Baldwin, Congregationalist (Calvinist)
William Leigh Pierce, Episcopalian (Calvinist)
William Houstoun, Episcopalian (Calvinist)
William Few, Methodist
[Caveat: Most of the mainline churches listed above have apostatized and today are unrecognizable by comparison to what they were at the founding of this country.]
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America's Unchristian Beginnings?
http://www.str.org/free/commentaries/social_issues/america.htm
The American Colonist's Library - A Treasury of Primary Documents
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i've gathered that though Franklin declined invitations to write The Declaration of Independence, he joined the drafting committee and did become Jefferson's major editor... but i do suppose that i could be wrong... in any case, both Franklin and Jefferson both possessed remarkable minds...
In the summer of 1787, delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia had been in bitter debate for ten long weeks. Tempers flared over heated issues between the northern and southern states. As tensions rose, some delegates threatened to pull out of the convention altogether, leaving the fledgling nation without a strong constitution.
When it looked like no one would ever be able to agree, the elder statesman of group took charge. 81 year-old Benjamin Franklin stood to his feet. And although he was not known to be devoutly religious, he gave this contentious gathering a stirring call for prayer.
"I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? ... I also believe that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders of Babel … Therefore, I beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations be held in this assembly every morning..."
Washington's prayer book is a fraud and was exposed as such from the very first day it was published. It is a standard Episcopalian prayer book from the day, and is not in Washingtons handwriting.
Gooooooaaaaaaaalllllllllllllll !
He was confused like a gay person in 2005 but erred on the side of a believer ?
Dr. Bancroft's list is interesting and has been posted on FR more than once. Where is the historical documentation to back it up? Listing people by parish and probaby were because they were buried in this or that cemetary does not prove or disprove what faith they were, if any. Speeches made to quell anger and/or gain cooperation are political even if they have a religious tone.
They weren't God haters, and it doesn't really matter if they were Deist, Christian, Hebrew or Atheist.
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My sources say otherwise-but I will check it out. It may well prove to be like that Treaty with Tripoli the Infidels and Atheists love to cite as authoratative but is proven fraud.
Do recall Rev. Witherspoon used the term"providence "quite
frequently are we to suppose that by use of the term "providence" one is automatically a deist? Sounds rather gay to me.
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