Faith of the Founders
The current trend to ignore or deliberately misrepresent the religious beliefs of America’s Founding Fathers is not accidental. The liberal academia would far rather speak of deism and agnosticism than Christianity. After all, if they weren’t Christians, our nation's founders would hardly have been very likely to build a nation based on Biblical principles. Unfortunately for the proponents of this agenda, the historical facts don’t match up.
The best way to know what a person thinks is often to go straight to the source. Liberals know this too, which is why they sometimes try to trick people by citing a quotation without its context. For example, I have heard people claim that John Adams was opposed to religion based on the quotation “This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion at all!!!” For those who are aware that John Adams also described himself as a “church going animal” (for over 70 years), there seems to be a discrepancy. At least, until you read the context. The full quotation, taken from a letter to Thomas Jefferson, written April 19, 1817 is “Twenty times in the course of my late reading have I been on the point of breaking out, "This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion at all!!!" But in this exclamation I would have been as fanatical as Bryant or Cleverly. Without religion, this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean hell.” Suddenly, just like that, Adams is now saying that a world without religion would be hell, a far cry from what they would want you to believe.
And so, in their own words, I give you America’s Founding Fathers…
The best way to know what a person thinks is often to go straight to the source. Liberals know this too, which is why they sometimes try to trick people by citing a quotation without its context. For example, I have heard people claim that John Adams was opposed to religion based on the quotation “This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion at all!!!” For those who are aware that John Adams also described himself as a “church going animal” (for over 70 years), there seems to be a discrepancy. At least, until you read the context. The full quotation, taken from a letter to Thomas Jefferson, written April 19, 1817 is “Twenty times in the course of my late reading have I been on the point of breaking out, "This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion at all!!!" But in this exclamation I would have been as fanatical as Bryant or Cleverly. Without religion, this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean hell.” Suddenly, just like that, Adams is now saying that a world without religion would be hell, a far cry from what they would want you to believe.
And so, in their own words, I give you America’s Founding Fathers…
