Behinds Quote by Robert Sherrill

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of…

— Mortimer Adler

“The “Founding Fathers” were not Christian. They were Deists. Deism was an eighteenth-century rationalist philosophy, emerging from the European Enlightenment. Deists understood “God” to…

— Monica Sjöö

“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion. John Adams, U.S. President”

— George Washington

“From many things that Adams and his contemporaries wrote, it is clear that they did not use the word "religion" to exclude Christian ideas…

— Gary DeMar

“All in all, Christian nation proponents commit several errors in their claims about the religious beliefs of the Founders. Their claims isolate the religious…

— Steven K. Green

“[The Founding Fathers] were not advocates for a monolithic notion of "God and Country," as promoters of a Christian America would now have us…

— Brooke Allen

The Founding Fathers were more deists. If you had to categorize them as anything. There was some sort of moving prime force. But it's…

— Bill Maher

While they came from a variety of religious backgrounds and held a wide variety of religious beliefs, each of our presidents in his own…

— John F. Kennedy

Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of things - they clearly rejected the idea of an established…

— Parker Palmer

“...the founders of our nation were nearly all Infidels, and that of the presidents who had thus far been elected { George Washington ,…

— Bird Wilson

“ The primary leaders of the so-called founding fathers of our nation were not Bible-believing Christians; they were deists . Deism was a philosophical…

— Farrell Till

“while one can debate whether a particular Founder was religiously devout, there is little question that many regularly attended Christian worship and participated in…

— Steven K. Green