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The Faiths of the Founding Fathers is a book by historian of American religion David L. Holmes from the College of William & Mary. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9 ...
The Founding Fathers of the United States, often simply referred to as the Founding Fathers or the Founders, were a group of late-18th-century American revolutionary leaders who united the Thirteen Colonies, oversaw the War of Independence from Great Britain, established the United States of America, and crafted a framework of government for ...
Taft's beliefs were the subject of some controversy, and in 1908 he found it necessary to refute a rumor that he was an atheist. [5] During his presidency he attended All Souls Church [84] Woodrow Wilson – Presbyterian [86] Wilson's father was a Presbyterian minister and professor of theology. [86]
George Washington in 1772 by Charles Willson Peale. The religious views of George Washington have long been debated. While some of the other Founding Fathers of the United States, such as Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Patrick Henry, were noted for writing about religion, Washington rarely discussed his religious and philosophical views.
At the time of the American revolution, many branches of Christians, including Baptists, Anglicans and Presbyterians, were represented in the United States. If the Founding Fathers had decided to ...
Since the late 19th century, some right-wing Christians have argued that the United States of America is essentially Christian in origin. They preach American exceptionalism, oppose liberal scholars, and emphasize the Christian identity of many Founding Fathers. Critics argue that many of these Christian founders actually supported the ...
America’s founding motto was “E Pluribus Unum” (out of one many) but in the 1950s religious zealots changed that to “in God we trust” and inserted “under God” into the secular Pledge ...
Cohen, I. Bernard Science and the Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Jefferson, Franklin, Adams and Madison (1995) W.W. Norton & Co, ISBN 0-393-03501-8; Dray, Philip Stealing God's Thunder: Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America (2005) Random House, ISBN 1-4000-6032-X; Ellis, Joseph.