jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho

L*****t Liberals reject history for their agendas sake, regardless of knowing they are propagating lies. Moderates following liberal media, Your problem may not be you, but more the act of erasing our history and rewriting or also known as "Revisionist " history over the last generation from Marxist and liberals at large.

The halls of our education system has been polluted with fabrication and lies from those rejecting God and the gospel of Jesus, grace, salvation through faith.

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Founding Fathers on Religion
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by Mary Fairchild
Updated May 17, 2017
No one can deny that many of the founding fathers of the United States of America were men of deep religious convictions based in the Bible and faith in Jesus Christ. Of the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence, nearly half (24) held seminary or Bible school degrees.

These Christian quotes of the founding fathers on religion will give you an overview of their strong moral and spiritual convictions which helped form the foundations of our nation and our government.

1st U.S. President

"While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian."
--The Writings of Washington, pp. 342-343.

JOHN ADAMS

2nd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence

"Suppose a nation in some distant Region should take the Bible for their only law Book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and industry; to justice, kindness, and charity towards his fellow men; and to piety, love, and reverence toward Almighty God ... What a Eutopia, what a Paradise would this region be."
--Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, Vol. III, p. 9.

"The general principles, on which the Fathers achieved independence, were the only Principles in which that beautiful Assembly of young Gentlemen could Unite, and these Principles only could be intended by them in their address, or by me in my answer. And what were these general Principles? I answer, the general Principles of Christianity, in which all these Sects were United: And the general Principles of English and American Liberty...
"Now I will avow, that I then believe, and now believe, that those general Principles of Christianity, are as eternal and immutable, as the Existence andAttributes of God; and that those Principles of Liberty, are as unalterable as human Nature and our terrestrial, mundane System."
--Adams wrote this on June 28, 1813, excerpt from a letter to Thomas Jefferson.

"The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever."
--Adams wrote this in a letter to his wife, Abigail, on July 3, 1776.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

3rd U.S. President, Drafter and Signer of the Declaration of Independence

"God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God?

That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever..."
--Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII, p. 237.

"I am a real Christian – that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus Christ."
--The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, p. 385.

JOHN HANCOCK

1st Signer of the Declaration of Independence

"Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual. ... Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us."
--History of the United States of America, Vol. II, p. 229.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Unites States Constitution

"Here is my Creed.
I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped.

"That the most acceptable service we render to him is in doing good to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental points in all sound religion, and I regard them as you do in wh**ever sect I meet with them.

"As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of morals and his religion, as he left them to us, is the best the world ever saw, or is likely to see;

"But I apprehend it has received various corrupting changes, and I have, with most of the present dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity; though it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the t***h with less trouble. I see no harm, however, in its being believed, if that belief has the good consequence, as probably it has, of making his doctrines more respected and more observed; especially as I do not perceive, that the Supreme takes it amiss, by distinguishing the unbelievers in his government of the world with any peculiar marks of his displeasure."
--Benjamin Franklin wrote this in a letter to Ezra Stiles, President of Yale University on March 9, 1790.

SAMUEL ADAMS

Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Father of the American Revolution

"And as it is our duty to extend our wishes to the happiness of the great family of man, I conceive that we cannot better express ourselves than by humbly supplicating the Supreme Ruler of the world that the rod of tyrants may be broken to pieces, and the oppressed made free again; that wars may cease in all the earth, and that the confusions that are and have been among nations may be overruled by promoting and speedily bringing on that holy and happy period when the kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ may be everywhere established, and all people everywhere willingly bow to the sceptre of Him who is Prince of Peace."
--As Governor of Massachusetts, Proclamation of a Day of Fast, March 20, 1797.

JAMES MADISON

4th U.S. President

"A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest while we are building ideal monuments of Renown and Bliss here we neglect to have our names enrolled in the Annals of Heaven."
--Written to William Bradford on November 9, 1772,Faith of Our Founding Fathers by Tim LaHaye, pp. 130-131; Christianity and the Constitution — The Faith of Our Founding Fathers by John Eidsmoe, p. 98.

JAMES MONROE

5th U.S. President

"When we view the blessings with which our country has been favored, those which we now enjoy, and the means which we possess of handing them down unimpaired to our latest posterity, our attention is irresistibly drawn to the source from whence they flow. Let us then, unite in offering our most grateful acknowledgments for these blessings to the Divine Author of All Good."
--Monroe made this statement in his 2nd Annual Message to Congress, November 16, 1818.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

6th U.S. President

"The hope of a Christian is inseparable from his faith. Whoever believes in the divine inspiration of the Holy Scriptures must hope that the religion of Jesus shall prevail throughout the earth. Never since the foundation of the world have the prospects of mankind been more encouraging to that hope than they appear to be at the present time. And may the associated distribution of the Bible proceed and prosper till the Lord shall have made 'bare His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God' (Isaiah 52:10)."
--Life of John Quincy Adams, p. 248.

WILLIAM PENN

Founder of Pennsylvania

"I do declare to the whole world that we believe the Scriptures to contain a declaration of the mind and will of God in and to those ages in which they were written; being given forth by the Holy Ghost moving in the hearts of holy men of God; that they ought also to be read, believed, and fulfilled in our day; being used for reproof and instruction, that the man of God may be perfect. They are a declaration and testimony of heavenly things themselves, and, as such, we carry a high respect for them. We accept them as the words of God Himself."
--Treatise of the Religion of the Quakers, p. 355.

ROGER SHERMAN

Signer of the Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution

"I believe that there is one only living and true God, existing in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, the same in substance equal in power and glory. That the scriptures of the old and new testaments are a revelation from God, and a complete rule to direct us how we may glorify and enjoy him. That God has foreordained whatsoever comes to pass, so as thereby he is not the author or approver of sin. That he creates all things, and preserves and governs all creatures and all their actions, in a manner perfectly consistent with the freedom of will in moral agents, and the usefulness of means. That he made man at first perfectly holy, that the first man sinned, and as he was the public head of his posterity, they all became sinners in consequence of his first t***sgression, are wholly indisposed to that which is good and inclined to evil, and on account of sin are liable to all the miseries of this life, to death, and to the pains of hell forever.

"I believe that God having elected some of mankind to eternal life, did send his own Son to become man, die in the room and stead of sinners and thus to lay a foundation for the offer of pardon and salvation to all mankind, so as all may be saved who are willing to accept the gospel offer: also by his special grace and spirit, to regenerate, sanctify and enable to persevere in holiness, all who shall be saved; and to procure in consequence of their repentance and faith in himself their justification by virtue of his atonement as the only meritorious cause...

"I believe that the souls of believers are at their death made perfectly holy, and immediately taken to glory: that at the end of this world there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a final judgement of all mankind, when the righteous shall be publicly acquitted by Christ the Judge and admitted to everlasting life and glory, and the wicked be sentenced to everlasting punishment."
--The Life of Roger Sherman, pp. 272-273.

BENJAMIN RUSH

Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Ratifier of the U.S. Constitution

"The gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation of life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!"
--The Autobiography of Benjamin Rush, pp. 165-166.

"If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into all the world would have been unnecessary.

The perfect morality of the gospel rests upon the doctrine which, though often controverted has never been refuted: I mean the vicarious life and death of theSon of God."
--Essays, Literary, Moral, and Philosophical, published in 1798.

ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Ratifier of the U.S. Constitution

"I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor."

--Famous American Statesmen, p. 126.

PATRICK HENRY

Ratifier of the U.S. Constitution

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here."
--The Trumpet Voice of Freedom: Patrick Henry of Virginia, p. iii.

"The Bible ... is a book worth more than all the other books that were ever printed."
--Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry, p. 402.

JOHN JAY

1st Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and President of the American Bible Society

"By conveying the Bible to people thus circumstanced, we certainly do them a most interesting kindness. We thereby enable them to learn that man was originally created and placed in a state of happiness, but, becoming disobedient, was subjected to the degradation and evils which he and his posterity have since experienced.

"The Bible will also inform them that our gracious Creator has provided for us a Redeemer, in whom all the nations of the earth shall be blessed; that this Redeemer has made atonement 'for the sins of the whole world,' and thereby reconciling the Divine justice with the Divine mercy has opened a way for our redemption and salvation; and that these inestimable benefits are of the free gift and grace of God, not of our deserving, nor in our power to deserve."
--In God We Trust—The Religious Beliefs and Ideas of the American Founding Fathers, p. 379.

"In forming and settling my belief relative to the doctrines of Christianity, I adopted no articles from creeds but such only as, on careful examination, I found to be confirmed by the Bible."
--American Statesman Series, p. 360.

This is what cannot be erased, T***h.....

Raylan Wolfe Loc: earth

T***h:

jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho

Your a sorry excuse of a human. Amazing that I hit the post button and 15 seconds later you replied. So your lying if you claim to have read the "actual" historic empirical evidence.
Your problem is not being a liberal l*****t standing on lies to fit your agenda (which you are). It's actually deeper. The full willful rejection of Jesus, the son of God. The price he paid on the cross for our sins that separates us from God and the saving grace that all whom believe by faith in Jesus (the works on the cross) repent (turn away, change how they think about sin) are eternally saved, and will be in the presence of our mighty Holy God for all time. Majority of the founding fathers believed this and their a great deal smarter than you or I.
With you evidence, t***h, empirical evidence have no place. Your life is liken to a method addict, he knows he should stop, he knows he should seek help beyond his ability to save himself, yet his desire for pleasing his flesh, the way method makes him feel. He would rather die in the worldly pleasures of meth (sin).

Free will

Carol Kelly

John Adams had the right idea. Hands down. It would be peace and love.

Carol Kelly

So right!

jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho

Your a liar and thief of t***h.

Only you and your elk are so sk**led at using quotes out of context.


Ronald Reagan is most famous for being the 40th president of the United States. He was also an actor from about the 1940s to early 1950s. As a president, he routinely included God and his faith in his speeches and believed, liked the founding fathers of the US, that God should be a part of our country.

"We might come closer to balancing the budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule."
- Ronald Reagan


"Without God, there is no virtue because there's no prompting of the conscience. And without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under."
- Ronald Reagan

Peace is more than just the absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom. And true peace dictates the recognition of human rights."

- Ronald Reagan

Topics: Peace, Freedom


"A******n is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born."

- Ronald Reagan

Topics: A******n, Children, Sin


"God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God."

- Ronald Reagan

America was founded by people who believe that God was their rock of safety. I recognize we must be cautious in claiming that God is on our side, but I think it's all right to keep asking if we're on His side."

- Ronald Reagan

Topics: God, Government, America


"We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child."

- Ronald Reagan

Topics: Death, Children, Sin


"I believe with all my heart that standing up for America means standing up for the God who has so blessed our land. We need God's help to guide our nation through stormy seas. But we can't expect Him to protect America in a crisis if we just leave Him over on the shelf in our day-to-day living."

- Ronald Reagan

Topics: Blessings, America


"If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under."

- Ronald Reagan

Topics: God


"I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US congress."

- Ronald Reagan

Topics: Justice, Humorous



Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged."

- Ronald Reagan

Topics: Government, Freedom


"We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place."

- Ronald Reagan

Topics: Education, Prayer, America


"Some of you may remember that in my early days, I was sort of a bleeding heart liberal. Then I became a man and put away childish ways."

- Ronald Reagan

Topics: Politics


"I was raised to believe that God has a plan for everyone and that seemingly random twists of fate are all a part of His plan."

- Ronald Reagan

Topics: God, Life


"America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land."

- Ronald Reagan

Topics: Restoration, America,


"Within the covers of the Bible are all the answers for all the problems men face."

- Ronald Reagan

Topics: The Bible


"We are never defeated unless we give up on God."

- Ronald Reagan

Topics: Apathy


The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him for the healing of America - our country is in need of and ready for a spiritual renewal."

- Ronald Reagan

Topics: Renewal, America, Healing


"Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God."

- Ronald Reagan

Topics: God, Life


"All great change in America begins at the dinner table."

- Ronald Reagan

Topics: Family, America, Change


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jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho

John Adams could not have more clearly stated his faith in Jesus
From the Magna Carta, Bill of Rights, Constitution and hundreds of our founding fathers recorded speechs, it is impossible to believe anything but.... the very intention of America's birth, was to be entrenched in the Christian faith of Jesus the Christ, Son of the living God.

karpenter Loc: Headin' Fer Da Hills !!

This Is The Part They Pretend Isn't There:
'...or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,'

Islam Is Not Included By The Founding Fathers By Their Own Words
And Muslims Are Already Banned From Immigration By
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 also known as the McCarran–Walter Act
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-66/pdf/STATUTE-66-Pg163.pdf

Raylan Wolfe Loc: earth

Free Wiil; The most prominent founding fathers were deists not Christians, they believed in a creator who left people to their own destiny!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-schweitzer/founding-fathers-we-are-n_b_6761840.html

http://www.onepoliticalplaza.com/t-5723-1.html

Mr Bombastic

Nothing funnier than a fool who thinks they are intelligent and clever. You prove it every time you speak. In fact, you are some of the best entertainment on here. Keep up the good work.

Raylan Wolfe Loc: earth

Mr Bombastic

Thanks for proving my point. Can you tell us which letter, and who it was addressed to, in which he made that quote? Didn't think so.

Iamdjchrys Loc: Decatur, Texas

His statement as to the separation of church and state still stands.

Mr Bombastic

Yes. It does. He believed that government should not interfere with religion. None of our founding fathers claimed that religion has no place in government. In fact, many of them believed that it is impossible to govern wisely without God.

jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho

[quote=karpenter]This Is The Part They Pretend Isn't There:
'...or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,'

Islam Is Not Included By The Founding Fathers By Their Own Words
And Muslims Are Already Banned From Immigration By
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 also known as the McCarran–Walter


Great point, more history removed from text books.


Muslims were attacking, raiding ships and in most cases k*****g all who were aboard. The earliest American Navy went to the Muslims on their turf and kicked their butts. Not until Obama have all the locks on gateways to America been removed in their fullest, gaining entry to what is now labeled as "Islamic terror group's are now in all 50 states"

“… To the shores of Tripoli”

America’s Military Connection to Libya and Tripoli’s Link to the US Marines’ Hymn



Two Hundred years ago the newly independent U.S.A. won a military victory in Libya that inspired the famous words from Francis Scott Key:

THE MARINES’ HYMN

From the Halls of Montezuma
To the shores of Tripoli
We fight our country’s battles
In the air, on land and sea.

…

United States relations with what is now Libya have a complex history going back to America’s first decades. Although two other North African states, Morocco and Tunisia, were among the first countries in the world to recognize the USA diplomatically, the new nation soon fought the Barbary Wars in the Mediterranean over attacks on its ships by pirates from Tripoli—the origin of the “shores of Tripoli” reference in the Marines’ Hymn.

Why the Corps were on the shores of Tripoli

President Thomas Jefferson became the first US president to bypass Congress and take the nation to war in 1801. It was the First Barbary War of 1801-1805. It was also a war of many firsts: the first foreign war fought by the US after the American Revolution, the first time an American soldier shed blood on foreign soil, the first time the US Marines saw battle, and the first time the Stars and Stripes were raised over foreign soil after a military victory. It was also the first attempt by the US to o*******w a foreign ruler and install an American-friendly government – an attempt which ended in compromise, not in victory. The mission was embarrassingly abandoned yet oddly commemorated by the Marines who never actually made it to the shores of Tripoli.

The Barbary Wars


‎ 125px-F**g_of_the_Ottoman_Empire_(1453-1844).svgولايت طرابلس غرب =Vilâyet-i Trâblus Gârp = F**g of the Ottoman Empire -Tripoli

The “Barbary” states are actually the North African states of today’s Algeria, Morocco, Libya, and Tunisia that were nominally governed by the Ottoman Empire. The Barbary Wars originated from the Barbary Coast pirates’ attacks on ships and crews along the North Coast of Africa. Since the 13th century, Barbary Coast pirates had attacked European ships in the Mediterranean, freeing crews and cargoes only after receiving ransom payments. For a higher price, the pirate states would agree to abstain from taking ships or hostages in the first place. During the 2nd half of the 18th century and before the Treaty of Paris, which granted America’s independence from Great Britain, American shipping was protected by France. Shortly after independence, more than one-fifth of U.S. trade then was with Mediterranean countries. And without the protection of the British and the French navies (then fighting each other elsewhere), American shipping


"From the halls of montezuma to the shores of tripoli"