Best of Founding Fathers Anti-Religion Quotes

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  • This video is #BestOf Founding Fathers Anti-Religion Quotes. A #compilation of #JohnAdams, #BenjaminFranklin, #ThomasJefferson and #ThomasPaine's #quotes against religion.
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    1. John Adams, "The Government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian religion."
    2. Benjamin Franklin, "The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."
    3. Thomas Jefferson, "I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology."
    4. Thomas Paine, "All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."
    5. John Adams, "This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religions in it."
    6. Thomas Jefferson, "The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."
    7. Thomas Jefferson, “The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
    8. Benjamin Franklin, "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."

Комментарии • 112

  • @csbaca1
    @csbaca1 4 года назад +44

    "I would rather have questions that cannot be answered, than answers that cannot be questioned."
    -FEYNMAN

  • @davidbergin6184
    @davidbergin6184 7 лет назад +30

    I love these little gems. Thank you for posting them.

    • @AgatanFnd
      @AgatanFnd  7 лет назад +2

      You are very welcome David

    • @joshx413
      @joshx413 6 лет назад +3

      It's deliberately misleading. You should read all these quotes in FULL CONTEXT. literally if you just read the NEXT LINE in John Adams quote, he says how wrong of an idea it is(the part of the quote they show in the video) look it up for yourself.

  • @MrLourie
    @MrLourie 7 лет назад +50

    Worth listening to again, and many times more. Very wise men indeed. The United States, and the world, could benefit to have these men as part of government today.

    • @skippergrumby12
      @skippergrumby12 7 лет назад +2

      Very few of these are accurate quotes.

    • @MEyck97
      @MEyck97 6 лет назад

      finally we would have a white USA instead!

    • @joshx413
      @joshx413 6 лет назад +1

      Lmfao. These are misleading quotes without the subsequent quite. Lmao. Completely taken out of context to misleading you

    • @Zeitgeist0
      @Zeitgeist0 6 лет назад +1

      even if the quotes aren't accurate it's more about the meaning of the said. And they were simply right when they said religion is like opium for the mankind. A man never will try to change it's situation for example if he's a believer because he thinks for example that he just needs to pray for a change but that will never happen. And then there are those religion "fathers" which are collecting the money and welfare and use their "input" (don't know a better word in English atm.) to control their believers. Also, there's the problem with inventions which most religions still complaining about because they're not to declare with their beliefs!

  • @csbaca1
    @csbaca1 4 года назад +27

    Science flies men to the moon...
    Religion flies men into tall buildings.

    • @chickenflavor9880
      @chickenflavor9880 3 года назад +1

      It depends on the religion.

    • @paedahe4975
      @paedahe4975 2 года назад +1

      Ignorance flies men into the grave.
      Stubbornness flies souls into eternal darkness.

    • @donnagriffin9222
      @donnagriffin9222 10 месяцев назад

      God created science.

    • @michaelparks5669
      @michaelparks5669 14 дней назад

      hahaha which religion flies men into buildings?

    • @joemontes4658
      @joemontes4658 8 дней назад

      @@chickenflavor9880no it doesn’t

  • @NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself
    @NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself 7 лет назад +14

    Wow, those Prager U ads at the beginning are insulting with their presuppositions.

  • @carlospomares3225
    @carlospomares3225 3 года назад +4

    Truly wise men.

  • @crsmith9988
    @crsmith9988 3 года назад +1

    Please, give us more like these... so true...

  • @skippergrumby12
    @skippergrumby12 7 лет назад +2

    Ben Franklin did not say Lighthouses are more useful than churches. Instead that is a false paraphrase of a much longer comment in a letter to his wife (17July1757) After describing a narrow escape from shipwreck Franklin added:"The bell ringing for church, we went thither immediately, and with hearts full of gratitude, returned sincere thanks to God for the mercies we had received: were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house"

  • @m_h8745
    @m_h8745 Год назад +1

    "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches" by Ben Franklin has got to be a reference to the destruction of the Lighthouse of Alexandria

  • @Bill_Garthright
    @Bill_Garthright 7 лет назад +15

    These are great, but as far as I can tell, that John Adams' quote ("This would be the best of all possible worlds...") wasn't the whole sentence. Leaving out the rest of it - not to mention the following sentences - greatly changes his meaning.
    I'm no expert, but this sentence seems to have been followed, rather closely, by "Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company." I disagree with him about that, but I wouldn't want him misquoted.
    This rather reminds me of how creationists misquote Charles Darwin. They quote one sentence of his about the evolution of the eye, without acknowledging the rest of the paragraph which changes the meaning of the sentence completely. I'd hate to see us atheists imitating creationists.

    • @JwGina
      @JwGina 7 лет назад +2

      Bill Garthright good on you for being objective. I'm just now learning about this on my atheism "journey" and dont wanna be mislead accidentally.

    • @Bill_Garthright
      @Bill_Garthright 7 лет назад +1

      Thanks, Naomi. Even for us atheists, it's always easy to believe what we want to believe. And we can't check _everything_ we hear. (Indeed, I didn't check all those other quotes.)
      But the faith-based regularly use fake, misattributed, or misleading quotations, and I don't want to imitate them. As I say, I'm no expert, but a quick Google search seems to be all you need for this one. Adams did say those words, but not _just_ those words.
      But I'd be very happy if someone could prove me wrong. :)

    • @AgatanFnd
      @AgatanFnd  7 лет назад +4

      Greatly appreciate it. Sometime my sources are not very reliable and I apologize for it.

    • @anthonyehooker
      @anthonyehooker 7 лет назад +7

      Here is the whole quote "“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.”
      (Source: April 19, 1817, letter to Thomas Jefferson:

    • @grit5124
      @grit5124 11 месяцев назад

      Adams isn’t speaking of religion in the sense we think of it. He’s speaking of any religion…not just Judao/Christian. He and the other founders believed that religion was necessary because of its moral instructions. Their religion was human reason. So if something in the Bible or Christ’s teaching went against reason they discarded it. They didn’t believe Jesus was divine. They didn’t believe the Virgin birth or the resurrection or the miracles. And they didn’t believe the Bible was the inspired word of God. So religion to them meant something very different. I’ve been reading and researching this and it’s certainly been an eye opener for me.

  • @trueprussian7957
    @trueprussian7957 7 лет назад +10

    Are there any citations for these quotes?

    • @NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself
      @NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself 7 лет назад +1

      True Prussian , yes.

    • @skippergrumby12
      @skippergrumby12 7 лет назад +7

      most are fakes or altered.

    • @the-chillian
      @the-chillian 6 лет назад +10

      1. The Treaty of Tripoli, signed into law by John Adams in 1797, unanimously ratified by the Senate.
      2. Entry for July from Poor Richard's Almanac of 1758.
      3. This one is actually spurious. It was first quoted in a pamphlet issued in 1883, where it was attributed to a letter from Jefferson to a "Dr. Woods". No such letter is now known. However, he actually has a better, genuine quote on the subject: www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/superstition-christianity-spurious-quotation But it's more in support of religious freedom than against all religion.
      4. "The Age of Reason", 1794, Part I, Chapter I
      5. Letter to Thomas Jefferson, April, 1826. This was to be Adams' last letter to Jefferson before both died on July 4 of that year.
      6. Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823
      7. Notes on the State of Virginia, 1782, Query XVII
      8. Misquoted. The original sentiment was expressed thusly in a letter to his wife written on July 17, 1757, after almost getting shipwrecked: "Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house."

    • @csbaca1
      @csbaca1 4 года назад +5

      @@skippergrumby12 fakes? Dont tell me your another skydaddy nut sniffer

    • @MrCountrycuz
      @MrCountrycuz 3 года назад +3

      Thomas Paine wrote an entire book about the incredulity of Christianity.
      The Age of Reason.

  • @StoningXStephen
    @StoningXStephen 7 месяцев назад

    If anything, it just goes to show that these same founding fathers were double minded about religion considering that all of the men that these quotes are attributed too have several quotes proclaiming Christian faith and attributing the Constitution as being a result of Christian motals and values. Thomas Paine being the only openly atheist of the bunch.

  • @BerraRazuke1
    @BerraRazuke1 2 года назад +2

    Quotes are only useful to the weak minded without context.
    1) Adams was a Puritan, this quote is about separation of church and state.
    2) Only half the quote: "The way to see by faith, is to shut the eye of reason: The morning daylight appears plainer when you put out your candle." Also no context, as it was in Poor Richard's almanac.
    3) Yeah, no, Jefferson probably never said this. It was a tertiary anecdote from the Reverend Ethan Allen, essentially the email forwards of the 19th century. Its authenticity is highly questionable.
    4) The quote is more anti-establishment and that passage starts with: “I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life."
    5)What he actually said was literally the opposite of what the quote implies. Writing to Jefferson, Adams wrote: "Twenty times, in the course of my late Reading, have I been upon the point of breaking out, "This would be the best of all possible Worlds, if there were no Religion in it"!!! But in this exclamati[on] I should 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."
    6) This is a misquotation. The first sentence has often been credited to Jefferson, but I've never seen an accurate citation. John Remsburg's Six Historic Americans cites it only as coming from a letter to a "Dr. Woods", but as far as I know no such letter has ever been found. In fact, it's often appended to various other legitimate Jefferson quotes, as it is here.
    7) That is a quote about not pushing what you believe or don't believe, on others. Thus voiding your argument there.
    8) Franklin never penned this statement, which is frequently attributed to him nonetheless. It’s likely that it came from a letter he wrote to his wife in July 1757, after he narrowly escaped a shipwreck off the British coast: “The bell ringing for church, we went thither immediately, and with hearts full of gratitude, returned sincere thanks to God for the mercies we had received. Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint; but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house.”

  • @Fismajster101
    @Fismajster101 7 лет назад +1

    Nice repost, but you still haven't corrected some of the quotes. I mean there are mistakes in the speech versus what is written.

  • @michaelparks5669
    @michaelparks5669 14 дней назад +1

    quoting the Founding Fathers on bad religion ignores their comments on good religion.

  • @anthonyehooker
    @anthonyehooker 7 лет назад +1

    The Ben Franklin Quote "Lighthouses...." is not a real quote.

    • @jaygill5582
      @jaygill5582 3 года назад +1

      Neither is god...so no harm intended here.

  • @RickKasten
    @RickKasten 7 лет назад +3

    Oh if only Jefferson's last quote was actually true.

    • @ulty1472
      @ulty1472 11 месяцев назад

      He still denied Christ divinity so hes in hell cry about it

  • @skippergrumby12
    @skippergrumby12 7 лет назад

    Joel Barlow is the one who said "The government of the United States ..." It wasn't Adams.
    That isn't what Franklin said either. You truncated the sentence. His actual quote is:
    "The Way to ſee by Faith is to ſhut the Eye of Reaſon: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle."
    "July. VII Month.", Poor Richard's Almanack (1758)

    • @keepingbloodpuretypenation5906
      @keepingbloodpuretypenation5906 2 года назад

      All of theme were christians this is just propaganda

    • @ulty1472
      @ulty1472 11 месяцев назад

      ADAMS WAS A UNITARIAN HE DID NOT WORSHIP THE CHRISTIAN GOD!!!!!!!!! HE WAS A FRIGGIN HERETIC!

  • @DN-gp9cf
    @DN-gp9cf 2 года назад

    "We recognize no sovereign but God, no King but Jesus!"----John Adams.

    • @serpentheadedmask9
      @serpentheadedmask9 2 года назад +4

      Where did he say this?

    • @turnage_michael
      @turnage_michael Год назад

      @@serpentheadedmask9 Yep.

    • @turnage_michael
      @turnage_michael Год назад

      @@serpentheadedmask9 They were satanists. Every. Single. One. Of. Them.

    • @ulty1472
      @ulty1472 11 месяцев назад

      John Adams was a unitarian
      He denied the trinity therefore he simply could not be christian

  • @colly3333
    @colly3333 7 лет назад +3

    It is 'than,' not 'then.' If you're going to post videos quoting thinkers, then, make sure you use correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Why? Because it is the logical thing to do. Aside from that, thank you for posting this helpful info about the American founding fathers.

    • @AgatanFnd
      @AgatanFnd  7 лет назад +2

      Cannot change the one on the video but I corrected the description. Thanks and you are very welcome

    • @skippergrumby12
      @skippergrumby12 7 лет назад +1

      It is not very helpful as most of it is inaccurate.

  • @jonjonboi3701
    @jonjonboi3701 2 года назад

    The founding fathers weren’t anti-religion or against religion

  • @aikonakamoto9030
    @aikonakamoto9030 3 месяца назад

    These are all taken wildly out of context...
    Let's start with the first quote from John Adams, about "America was not founded on Christianity." This is simply referring to the fact that America does not have an official state required religion of Christianity, like existed in all the European nations at the time. It comes from a treaty with the Islamic pirates. We were trying to get them off our backs. Saying look, we don't have any beef with you.
    John Adams also said...
    "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the governance of any other."
    Does that sound like a man who thinks we aren't a Christian nation?
    Further, this quote may never have even happened in the first place. Because that line is missing in the original Arabic copy of the document. So it's possible someone tampered with it and added that in years later.
    Jefferson was a Christian. He simply disliked how many churches were run at the time. He wanted to return to. More true form of Christiantiy. This is evident in his writings. You have to read deeper than the cherry picked quotes your liberal teachers told you.
    Thomas Paine was legitimately an atheist, so I'll give you that one. However, calling him a "founder" is really stretching it. Yes, I've heard his Common Sense supposedly led to the revolution, and if that were true, I would consider him a founder too. The only problem is that it isn't true.
    The revolution started at the battle of Lexington Concord in April 1775. And events leading up to the revolution had been going on for the past 5-10 years before that.
    Paine lived in England. He lobbied for worker rights, until he was fired from his own organization for being too lazy and shirking his duties. He got into a huge amount kf debt, then fled to America to avoid that debt, in November 1774, a mere 5 months before the war started. And tensions between America and England had been building for years before this.
    He wrote common sense, and published it in January, 1776, a whole 9 months AFTER the war started. Paine was lazy and late to the revolution, just like he was in his old life in England. He piggy backed off thee actual founding fathers, stole most of their ideas, and published it as his own. And for some reason people worship him today.
    Also, love how you call this the best anti religion quotes. And you have literally just 4 quotes I could share with you HUNDREDS of very pro Christianity quotes from nearly every founder. Such as...
    "The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity, and humanity. Suppose a nation should take the Bible for their only law book and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited... What a eutopia - What a paradise would this region be." John Adams
    "I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus Christ." Thomas Jefferson.
    "The practice of morality being necessary foe thr well being of society, He [God] has taken care to impress its precepts so indelibly on our hearts that they shall not be effaced by the subtleties of our brain. We all agree in the obligation of the moral principles of Jesus snd nowhere will they be found delivered in greater purity than His discourses." Thomas Jefferson
    "I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much the work of a Divine Providence as anh of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament." Benjamin Rush
    "Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers. And it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers." John Jay

  • @jaygill5582
    @jaygill5582 3 года назад

    (with Hank Hill voice) murica goddammit! land of the free
    God giving right goddammit!!!

  • @tomdefig6514
    @tomdefig6514 6 лет назад

    Did George Washington not talk shit about cults?

  • @dorianphilotheates3769
    @dorianphilotheates3769 5 лет назад

    For Godssakes! What happened to America?!? What brought it from the humanism and enlightenment of the Founding Fathers to the present condition? ‘Oprah’, maybe? ‘Jerry’? ‘The Kardashians’, ‘The Housewives’ franchise, fast food, Twitter, ‘selfies’?

    • @deanhall9292
      @deanhall9292 5 лет назад

      These were LIES. They were pretending to not believe, when in fact they had to be deists, to even become Freemasons. The fact( no one is taught), and largely hidden, is that the Protestant Pilgrim colonys had BANNED Catholicism!!! This "Freedom of Religion" was so Catholics could worship in churches again. Jesuit John Carroll is Americas real "founding father"......a Jesuit Catholic!!!
      At the time, the Jesuits had just been disbanded by the Pope, and exiled from Europe. They flocked to the Jesuit slave plantations of the south, and rebelled against Protest-ant England. It was French Jesuits who financed the war of independance and counter the Royal navy.
      * Washington even had the "jesuit Sun symbol" on his chair!!!
      * The Smithsonian also uses the Jesuit sun symbol.
      This is why there is no Cathederals before the 1770s, the 1st in Baltimore, the secret "catholic' colony of Lord Baltimore. Wake the hell up please....VIRGINian MARYlanders. In God We Tru$T?.....NO seperation of church and state there!

    • @austinflores8552
      @austinflores8552 4 года назад

      Dorian Philotheates modern technology

  • @thetrain47539
    @thetrain47539 9 месяцев назад

    What song?

  • @andrewthomas4636
    @andrewthomas4636 4 года назад +3

    Great partial quotes . . . Why don't you give some context to those quotes. Some of those were actually questions that the founding fathers posed, but the question part of the word was removed.
    This video was a very dishonest, or uneducated portrayal of what the founding fathers actually said. I encourage anyone to read the previous and following sentence of any of these statements. You will definitely not think they were saying what these quotes are trying to say.

  • @Sumiyeco_boutique
    @Sumiyeco_boutique 7 лет назад +8

    Be careful about these quotes. Yes, there is a lot of evidence that the founding fathers warned against blind faith and dogma, but they were believers nonetheless. Just like Isaac was religious only at the limit of his scientific understanding. Don't setup newly, uniformed atheists to failure in a debate against a clever believer.

    • @rockinresurrection6542
      @rockinresurrection6542 3 года назад +3

      "Clever" and "believer" don't fit

    • @murdockscott
      @murdockscott 3 года назад +1

      In my research they seem to fall into three categories full deists (only a few), Christians influenced by deism to varying degrees (most of them) and orthodox Christians (also only a few). I would advise caution about how you present your arguments, it’s fully safe to say that a majority of the founding fathers were influenced by deist ideals.

    • @turnage_michael
      @turnage_michael Год назад

      Believers in the Luciferian occult doctrines of the Freemason cult they belonged to. Anthropologists found evidence of human bones ritualistically killed and arranged in the basement of Benjamin Franklin's old house in England. Human sacrifice is a rite of Freemasonry, says so repeatedly in their own books written by authoritative masons and published by the lodges, and Franklin was a 33rd degree mason, this is a historical fact.

    • @turnage_michael
      @turnage_michael Год назад

      @@murdockscott Nope. Luciferian.

    • @thetrain47539
      @thetrain47539 Год назад

      Thomas Jefferson? Religious? What are you? Braindead?

  • @anarchistatheist1917
    @anarchistatheist1917 2 года назад +2

    The founding father's were either, agnostics, deists, or open minded tolerant Christians. They were great men indeed.

  • @silencedogood7470
    @silencedogood7470 6 лет назад

    John Adams
    SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE; JUDGE; DIPLOMAT; ONE OF TWO SIGNERS
    OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS; SECOND PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
    The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.1
    Without religion, this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company: I mean hell.2
    The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.3
    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. . . . What a Eutopia - what a Paradise would this region be!4
    I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.5
    John Quincy Adams
    SIXTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES; DIPLOMAT; SECRETARY OF STATE; U. S. SENATOR;
    U. S. REPRESENTATIVE; “OLD MAN ELOQUENT”; “HELL-HOUND OF ABOLITION”
    My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ and I cannot cavil or quibble away [evade or object to]. . . . the whole tenor of His conduct by which He sometimes positively asserted and at others countenances [permits] His disciples in asserting that He was God.6
    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].7
    In the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior. The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.8
    Samuel Adams
    SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE; “FATHER OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION”; RATIFIER OF THE U. S. CONSTITUTION; GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS
    I . . . [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins.9
    The name of the Lord (says the Scripture) is a strong tower; thither the righteous flee and are safe [Proverbs 18:10]. Let us secure His favor and He will lead us through the journey of this life and at length receive us to a better.10
    I conceive we cannot better express ourselves than by humbly supplicating the Supreme Ruler of the world . . . that the confusions that are and have been among the nations may be overruled by the promoting and speedily bringing in the holy and happy period when the kingdoms of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ may be everywhere established, and the people willingly bow to the scepter of Him who is the Prince of Peace.11
    He also called on the State of Massachusetts to pray that . . .
    • the peaceful and glorious reign of our Divine Redeemer may be known and enjoyed throughout the whole family of mankind.12
    • we may with one heart and voice humbly implore His gracious and free pardon through Jesus Christ, supplicating His Divine aid . . . [and] above all to cause the religion of Jesus Christ, in its true spirit, to spread far and wide till the whole earth shall be filled with His glory.13
    • with true contrition of heart to confess their sins to God and implore forgiveness through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ our Savior.14
    Josiah Bartlett
    MILITARY OFFICER; SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE;
    JUDGE; GOVERNOR OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
    Called on the people of New Hampshire . . .
    to confess before God their aggravated transgressions and to implore His pardon and forgiveness through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ . . . [t]hat the knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus Christ may be made known to all nations, pure and undefiled religion universally prevail, and the earth be fill with the glory of the Lord.15
    Gunning Bedford
    MILITARY OFFICER; MEMBER OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS;
    SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION; FEDERAL JUDGE
    To the triune God - the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost - be ascribed all honor and dominion, forevermore - Amen.16
    Elias Boudinot
    PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS; SIGNED THE PEACE TREATY TO END THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION; FIRST ATTORNEY ADMITTED TO THE U. S. SUPREME COURT BAR; FRAMER OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS; DIRECTOR OF THE U. S. MINT
    Let us enter on this important business under the idea that we are Christians on whom the eyes of the world are now turned… [L]et us earnestly call and beseech Him, for Christ’s sake, to preside in our councils. . . . We can only depend on the all powerful influence of the Spirit of God, Whose Divine aid and assistance it becomes us as a Christian people most devoutly to implore. Therefore I move that some minister of the Gospel be requested to attend this Congress every morning . . . in order to open the meeting with prayer.17
    A letter to his daughter:
    You have been instructed from your childhood in the knowledge of your lost state by nature - the absolute necessity of a change of heart and an entire renovation of soul to the image of Jesus Christ - of salvation through His meritorious righteousness only - and the indispensable necessity of personal holiness without which no man shall see the Lord [Hebrews 12:14]. You are well acquainted that the most perfect and consummate doctrinal knowledge is of no avail without it operates on and sincerely affects the heart, changes the practice, and totally influences the will - and that without the almighty power of the Spirit of God enlightening your mind, subduing your will, and continually drawing you to Himself, you can do nothing. . . . And may the God of your parents (for many generations past) seal instruction to your soul and lead you to Himself through the blood of His too greatly despised Son, Who notwithstanding, is still reclaiming the world to God through that blood, not imputing to them their sins. To Him be glory forever!18
    For nearly half a century have I anxiously and critically studied that invaluable treasure [the Bible]; and I still scarcely ever take it up that I do not find something new - that I do not receive some valuable addition to my stock of knowledge or perceive some instructive fact never observed before. In short, were you to ask me to recommend the most valuable book in the world, I should fix on the Bible as the most instructive both to the wise and ignorant. Were you to ask me for one affording the most rational and pleasing entertainment to the inquiring mind, I should repeat, it is the Bible; and should you renew the inquiry for the best philosophy or the most interesting history, I should still urge you to look into your Bible. I would make it, in short, the Alpha and Omega of knowledge.19
    Charles Carroll
    SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE; SELECTED AS DELEGATE TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION; FRAMER OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS; U. S. SENATOR
    On the mercy of my Redeemer I rely for salvation and on His merits, not on the works I have done in obedience to His precepts.21
    Grateful to Almighty God for the blessings which, through Jesus Christ Our Lord, He had conferred on my beloved country in her emancipation and on myself in permitting me, under circumstances of mercy, to live to the age of 89 years, and to survive the fiftieth year of independence, adopted by Congress on the 4th of July 1776, which I originally subscribed on the 2d day of August of the same year and of which I am now the last surviving signer.22
    I, Charles Carroll. . . . give and bequeath my soul to God who gave it, my body to the earth, hoping that through and by the merits, sufferings, and mediation of my only Savior and Jesus Christ, I may be admitted into the Kingdom prepared by God for those who love, fear and truly serve Him.23
    Congress, 1854
    The great, vital, and conservative element in our system is the belief of our people in the pure doctrines and the divine truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.24
    Congress, U. S. House Judiciary Committee, 1854
    Had the people, during the Revolution, had a suspicion of any attempt to war against Christianity, that Revolution would have been strangled in its cradle… In this age, there can be no substitute for Christianity… That was the religion of the founders of the republic and they expected it to remain the religion of their descendants.25
    John Dickinson
    SIGNER OF THE CONSTITUTION; GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA; GOVERNOR OF DELAWARE; GENERAL IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
    Rendering thanks to my Creator for my existence and station among His works, for my birth in a country enlightened by the Gospel and enjoying freedom, and for all His other kindnesses, to Him I resign myself, humbly confiding in His goodness and in His mercy through Jesus Christ for the events of eternity.26
    [Governments] could not give the rights essential to happiness… We claim them from a higher source: from the King of kings, and Lord of all the earth.27
    Gabriel Duvall
    SOLDIER; JUDGE; SELECTED AS DELEGATE TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION;
    COMPTROLLER OF THE U. S. TREASURY; U. S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE
    I resign my soul into the hands of the Almighty Who gave it, in humble hopes of His mercy through our Savior Jesus Christ.28
    IN ALL DO RESPECT HOW DO YOU RESPOND TO THIS?

    • @robinhood20253
      @robinhood20253 11 месяцев назад

      John Adams was a deist, not a Christian.

  • @MrWizarddog
    @MrWizarddog 3 года назад +8

    You forgot one!
    "It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible."
    -George Washington

    • @zaggy3110
      @zaggy3110 3 года назад +1

      George Washington = filthy freemason (like other founding fathers)
      A christian can't be a freemason

  • @OTheA
    @OTheA Год назад

    Great now do their best religious quotes 🤣

  • @ComeAlongKay
    @ComeAlongKay 2 года назад

    Yeah I don’t think any of this is actually true. But your supporters will love it. Definitely a lot of vested interest in casting the founding fathers a certain way.

  • @user-hg1rx2xv4g
    @user-hg1rx2xv4g 5 месяцев назад

    Not a suitable voice at all...too Iago-like. Get someone like Josh Hawley, or Vicek Ramaswamy

  • @michaelmouse2221
    @michaelmouse2221 3 года назад +4

    Fake news

    • @zaggy3110
      @zaggy3110 3 года назад +2

      You can't handle the truth

    • @michaelmouse2221
      @michaelmouse2221 3 года назад +5

      @@zaggy3110 If you have ever read some of the real documents, like I have from our founding fathers, you would have a very difficult time distinguishing between their documents and the Bible. Almost every sentence acknowledges God and their willingness to submit to His will. This country was founded upon Christian values. I know its hard to believe that today bc this country seems to be going the opposite way of Christ but that's truth.
      Don't believe everything you hear on RUclips and do your own research. Then you can say "you can't handle the truth" bc it really sounds like you don't want to deal with the truth🙏.

  • @dennishowell6824
    @dennishowell6824 2 года назад

    JESUS IS GOD PERIOD ...I DIED AND SPOLE TO HIM..........