Founding Fathers on Religions - Select Quotes

What the Founding Fathers of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA thought about religions and the great evil that comes through them.
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[Enigmaticaluna13]

George Washington, In his farewell speech on September 19, 1796: "It is impossible to govern the world without God and the Bible. Of all the dispositions and habits that lead to political prosperity, our religion and morality are the indispensable supporters. Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that our national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."

[raelko]

@Enigmaticaluna13 I am going to say this once...Just because someone uses the word god doesn't mean a damn thing that the believes on whatever you want to believe in. I find myself to say "o god" quite often too under certain circumstances you can imagine. No point of pursuing an argument. Clearly what I appreciate this country for is not the same as yours,

[pogopogopogo3]

@Enigmaticaluna13 Of course your quote might be misleading to any who don't know that Jefferson's "pure doctrine of Jesus" consisted of what little was left of the gospels when he trashed everything he didn't like or couldn't believe (miracles,divinity,teachings he felt were "falsehoods and charlatanisms") in a process he described as "cutting verse by verse out of the printed book, and arranging the matter which is evidently his, and which is as easily distinguishable as diamonds in a dunghill"

[pogopogopogo3]

Jefferson: "Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus. If it could be understood it would not answer their purpose. Their security is in their faculty of shedding darkness....making it impenetrable to the eye of a pursuing enemy, and there they will skulk."

[pogopogopogo3]

Jefferson also called the Book of the Revelation "merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherences of our own nightly dreams."

[ymkamara420]

@Enigmaticaluna13 he made his own vision of the bible

[ymkamara420]

@Enigmaticaluna13 nope that was john q adams

[Enigmaticaluna13]

Thomas Jefferson wrote on the front of his well- worn Bible: "I am a Christian, that is to say a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our whole country will soon be rallied to the unity of our Creator and, I hope, to the pure doctrine of Jesus also."

[Enigmaticaluna13]

Patrick Henry.- The words he wrote shortly before his death: "I have disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give to them, and that is the Christian religion. If they had that and I had not given them one cent, they would be rich. If they have not that, and I had given them the world, they would be poor."

[Enigmaticaluna13]

Patrick Henry, Famous words, "An appeal to arms and the God of hosts is all that is left us. But we shall not fight our battle alone. There is a just God that presides over the destinies of nations. The battle sir, is not of the strong alone. Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.