Hessian
Well-Known Member
I heard a lecture from a kindly old lady in the Episcopal church in Philadephia where many of our Contitnental Congressmen and early senators met. With the Apostle's creed framing her nearly white hair...she outright lied-demonstrating the leftist revisionism that mucked up our schools in the 1970's.
"As you all know, our founding father's were mostly Deists..."
The labor of hundreds of scholars in the 1980's and 1990's has put this theory in the dust bin. Amidst the Nation-hating leftists we see the need to demonize our founders, describing them as bitter, slave-holding aristocrats who cared more for the pocketbooks than their rights we fought for. And that their highly reasoned minds rejected Christianity, redemption, the resurrection of Christ, miracles etc.
WRONG!
Their own words in letters, sermons, eulogies, etc reveal men who believed in the providencial hand of God which brought them independence and Liberty.
John Locke...heavily read by our founders was very devout. "Nature's God" has nothing to do with the "Clock-watcher" god that so many bearded hippi professors snickered about.
So the next criticism that pops up is "Well, they didn't lead moral Lives and what about Jefferson rewriting the Bible? Huh?"
Jefferson...was a deist.
BUT: He did not start out that way, in fact he was cofounder of a fundamentalist church in Charlottesville in 1777. He counted a number of pastors as his close friends but he took a turn for the worse when he stayed too long in PreRevolutionary France.
Did others follow his lead? Not even his close friend Madison jumped into the muddled Deist mindset.(Franklin wasn't quite sure what he believed...)
So, call me on the carpet and demand proof:
Patrick Henry, George Washington, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, John Laurens, Richard Henry Lee, all and many more made powerful statements of true faith.
So the kindly old deceived lady continues to give her inaccurate lecture day by day, unaware of the dusty discredited Liberal beliefs. In fact...she outright presents hypocrisy: If these founders were all diests, then why attend church as often as they did, why recite the Apostle's Creed every Sunday, why write comments on inspiring sermons, and prayers when they don't believe it? It makes them profound liars and false leaders. Thanks ma'am...time to retire.
(Edited by Hessian at 7:59 pm on April 9, 2002)
"As you all know, our founding father's were mostly Deists..."
The labor of hundreds of scholars in the 1980's and 1990's has put this theory in the dust bin. Amidst the Nation-hating leftists we see the need to demonize our founders, describing them as bitter, slave-holding aristocrats who cared more for the pocketbooks than their rights we fought for. And that their highly reasoned minds rejected Christianity, redemption, the resurrection of Christ, miracles etc.
WRONG!
Their own words in letters, sermons, eulogies, etc reveal men who believed in the providencial hand of God which brought them independence and Liberty.
John Locke...heavily read by our founders was very devout. "Nature's God" has nothing to do with the "Clock-watcher" god that so many bearded hippi professors snickered about.
So the next criticism that pops up is "Well, they didn't lead moral Lives and what about Jefferson rewriting the Bible? Huh?"
Jefferson...was a deist.
BUT: He did not start out that way, in fact he was cofounder of a fundamentalist church in Charlottesville in 1777. He counted a number of pastors as his close friends but he took a turn for the worse when he stayed too long in PreRevolutionary France.
Did others follow his lead? Not even his close friend Madison jumped into the muddled Deist mindset.(Franklin wasn't quite sure what he believed...)
So, call me on the carpet and demand proof:
Patrick Henry, George Washington, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, John Laurens, Richard Henry Lee, all and many more made powerful statements of true faith.
So the kindly old deceived lady continues to give her inaccurate lecture day by day, unaware of the dusty discredited Liberal beliefs. In fact...she outright presents hypocrisy: If these founders were all diests, then why attend church as often as they did, why recite the Apostle's Creed every Sunday, why write comments on inspiring sermons, and prayers when they don't believe it? It makes them profound liars and false leaders. Thanks ma'am...time to retire.
(Edited by Hessian at 7:59 pm on April 9, 2002)