Faith of the Founding Father's

It has been said in various Christian circles that well over 90% of the founding fathers were born-again Christians. To me that just sounded like an absurdly high number. So, I thought I would do a little peaking around and see what I could come up with. For a disclaimer, I believe the word "founding father" gets tossed around a bit much, as there were different signers of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Articles of Confederation. For the purposes of this blog, I will only be referencing the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence. Now for the fun to begin. For the purposes of time and length I am only going to include the signers who seem to be a bit sketchy in regards to their Christian faith.

John Adams the 2nd president of the USA was most definitely not a Christian. He was nothing more than a universalist who rejected the Triune God. Below are a few quotes ascribing him to this belief. You can find a great deal of these quotes in a this book.

In correspondence with Jefferson, we see why Adams was definitely not a Christian,

"θέμίς was the Goddess of honesty, Justice, Decency, and right; the Wife of Jove, another name for Juno. She presided over all oracles, deliberations and Counsells. She commanded all Mortals to pray to Jupiter, for all lawful Benefits and Blessings.

Now, is not this, (so far forth) the Essence of Christian devotion? Is not this Christian Piety? Is it not an Acknonowledgement [sic] of the existence of a Supream Being? of his universal Providence? of a righteous Administration of the Government of the Universe? And what can Jews, Christians, or Mahometans do more?"

Next up will be Thomas Jefferson....