Religious Affiliation of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence

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[Alex Murphy]

Religious Affiliation	# of signers	% of signers
Episcopalian/Anglican	32	57.1%
Congregationalist	13	23.2%
Presbyterian	12	21.4%
Quaker	2	3.6%
Unitarian or Universalist	2	3.6%
Catholic	1	1.8%
TOTAL	56	100%

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[livius]

The declaration was signed by English colonials in the English area, so this is perfectly normal...they were mostly Anglicans (Episcopalians), members of the state church at that time.

I have actually always been surprised that a Catholic was allowed to sign, considering the attacks on the Catholic Church by the English at that point. So the tolerance of Catholics by Protestants was a positive sign that many people don’t recognize or understand.

[NoLibZone]

We needed France.

[Fred Hayek]

Charles Carroll was from Maryland, which had been very tolerant of Catholics.

[Ripliancum]

Good list. Added to this is how many signers were Freemasons.

Confirmed Masonic Membership of the following:
William Ellery, RI
Benjamin Franklin, PA
John Hancock, MA
Joseph Hewes, NC
William Hooper, NC
Robert Treat Paine, MA
Richard Stockton, NJ
George Walton, GA
William Whipple, NH

Membership Rumored, but not Proven by Records:
Elbridge Gerry, MA
Thomas Jefferson, VA
Richard Henry Lee, VA
Thomas McKean, DE
Robert Morris, PA
Thomas Nelson, Jr., VA
John Penn, NC
Benjamin Rush, PA
Roger Sherman, CT
James Smith, PA
John Witherspoon, NJ

[bossmechanic]

Now wait a minute!!!
Not one darn Baptist??
Heck,
Ya can’t swing a dead cat down here in Georgia and not hit three Baptist churches!!!

[240B]

There is no ‘constitutional’ separation of Church and State.
This is and has always been a myth created by Liberals.

Anyone with more than two brain cells can easily see that all the founding documents are replete with references to G-D. And all the founding fathers were religious, rational, fair and ethical people. They were all the exact opposite of a Liberal.

[ully2]

What, no muzzies?

[angryoldfatman]

About France: We benefitted greatly from the propensity of France to tick off Britain.

[Candor7]

Wasn't Jefferson a Muslim? He had a copy of the Koran in his library!/s

[Misterioso]

Not one darn Baptist??

Exactly. That's why this list is ridiculous.

[livius]

Actually, I don’t think it was that cynical (for one thing, the French had been heavily, if not officially, on the side of the Protestants for a long time). The Founders realized that a state church wasn’t a good idea and even though the Anglicans didn’t like the Congregationalists and vice versa, and nobody liked the Catholics, they understood that the Judeo Christian nucleus had to be the foundation of this new country.

[hellbender]

I'd like to see unequivocal evidence that John Adams was a Unitarian.

It's interesting to note that the Supreme Court today consists almost entirely of Roman Catholics and Jews.

[evangmlw]

Yup, the’re all owned by the world system.

[evangmlw]

Baptist were to busy preaching the gospel, didn’t have time for political office.

[I_Like_Spam]

No Methodists on the list, but then methodism hadn’t formed their own churches in America until after the Declaration of Independence.

The Baptists didn’t really organize much in America either until the beginning of the 19th Century.

[livius]

Carroll was a Catholic. Maryland was the first among the colonies to provide for freedom of religion, having been founded for this purpose by the Catholic Lord Baltimore (the Calvert family) in 1632.

[hellbender]

The Catholics (Kennedy, Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, Alito) on the Supreme Court are now the only barrier to complete triumph of atheistic secular values.

[Jeff Head]

Those men knew what they were about. They were dedicated, committed, God-fearing individuals who set in motion something amazing...something inspired.

"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."- John Adams, Oct. 11, 1798 "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."- John Adams, Oct. 11, 1798

Now, after a 40-50 year coup in America...a slow coup where virtually every aspect of society has been slowly infiltrated by individuals diametrically opposed to what those original individual's set in motion, we have an abject marxist and his enablers at the helm. And they know exactly what they are about as they attempt to dissemble what ovr 220 yeaars created.

But the spirit of America is still alive and has awakened.

AMERICA AAWAKENS IN 2009-2010

...and it is forcing thee enemies, and to be sure, they are enemies to everything we hold dear, to hurry, and make their designs more plain with every passing day and to make many large mistakes, awakening further more Americans.

Now, Ameirca is at the crossroads of history, with the opportunity to start turning the long coup around in 2010 and 2012 and that freedom and true morally based liberty and this Union might not perish rom the earth. Shall we do so?

AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY IN 2010

You bet!

As seen this July 4th on www.jeffhead.com:

"Barack Hussein Obama, hear us, loyal Americans whose bloodlines run deep in this land, back to the founding & beyond, who have watered the ground of this nation & foreign soils to maintain our liberty & constitution: Molon Labe-Sic Semper Tyranus-De Oppresso Liber. Your Marxism shall not stand in this land, so help us God!" - Jeff Head, July 3, 2010

WE NEED YOU TO HELP RESTORE THE CONSTITUTION