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Do you think our Founding Fathers were Christian?
Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." - Thomas Jefferson
"Religions are all alike - founded upon fables and mythologies." - Thomas Jefferson
"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government." - Thomas Jefferson
"In no instance have . . . the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people." - James Madison
" The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity." - John Adams
"Lighthouses are more helpful than churches." - Benjamin Franklin
The essential issue is the difference between what was practiced as Christianity then and now.
Many of the founders believed in "Providence," a Creator who began the universe, but who was not intimately involved in every action of every person. You would no more have a "personal relationship" with such a Being than with gravity. And the emphasis was on following the precepts of Jesus, but that God the Father was the primary manifestation of God.
Modern Christianity, of course, has many flavors. But the evangelical version is a far cry from what most of the founders practiced. (Note that this doesn't make evangelicals wrong, but it does mean they are not viewing "Christianity" in the way the founders did.)
And of course, then as now, many practicers of religion would have said that they and only they were "Christians." Everyone else--Quaker, Catholic, Lutheran, etc.--were heretics or blasphemers.
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