Did the Founding Fathers Believe in God?

George Washington, Father of our Nation

“… Reason and experience both forbid to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”

                                                                                     

Thomas Jefferson, Father of The Declaration of Independence

“I, too, have made a wee-little book from the same materials, which I call the Philosophy of Jesus; it is a paradigma of his doctrines, made by cutting the texts out of the book, and arranging them on the pages of a blank book, in a certain order of time or subject. A more beautiful or precious morsel of ethics I have never seen; it is a document in proof that I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus.”

James Madison, Father of the Constitution

“Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.”

Samuel Adams, Father of the American Revolution

 “The right to freedom being the gift of the Almighty...The rights of the colonists as Christians...may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institutions of The Great Law Giver and Head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament.”

                                                                                                          

Patrick Henry, the first governor of Virginia

"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!"

John Adams, the first Vice President, the 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; and that those principles of liberty are as unalterable as human nature.”

Benjamin Franklin, Father of Morality

“… The longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs in the affairs of men …And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine that we no longer need his assistance?”

“Here is my creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the universe. That he governs by his Providence. That he ought to be worshiped. That the most acceptable service we render to him is doing to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting his conduct in this.”

John Jay, Author of the Federalist Papers, First Justice of the Supreme Court

“While in France . . . I do not recollect to have had more than two conversations with atheists about their tenants. The first was this: I was at a large party, of which were several of that description. They spoke freely and contemptuously of religion. I took no part in the conversation. In the course of it, one of them asked me if I believed in Christ? I answered that I did, and that I thanked God that I did.”

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