JOHN ADAMS

John Adams was America’s second president, and a close friend of Thomas Jefferson. Adams, Jefferson and Ben Franklin worked together on the first committee to design the Great Seal for the United States. While it does not appear that Adams was a member of any secret group, he was a Unitarian and shared views of Christianity not unlike those of Paine, Jefferson and Franklin. Adams was an intellectual whose belief in “God” was, at best a collection of pagan ideas amalgamated together by his own imagination. This comes as a shock to many Christians...

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THE WITNESS OF PATRICK HENRY

What happened with the Treaty of Tripoli may be indicative of the suspicions of underhanded dealings among the founders. While we are often given the impression that angels practically came down and sat on Washington’s shoulders, as he and the other revolutionaries set forth a divinely inspired document – not all Americans were so deceived. Patrick Henry, for example, refused to take part in the first Constitutional Convention, because he did not trust...

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GEORGE WASHINGTON

Undoubtedly, the most famous man to have survived the American Revolution is the veritable “father of our country,” George Washington; but was he a Christian? Many zealous Christian patriots have insisted that he was, but history reveals that questions about his faith did not begin in the modern era. Even during his lifetime, there were many who sought out a clear answer as to what George Washington believed about God and the Lord Jesus Christ...

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FREEMASONRY & THE FOUNDING FATHERS

In his book, The Question of Freemasonry and the Founding Fathers, author David Barton takes up the argument about whether or not the United States was founded by Masons. Despite the overwhelming evidence against him, he diminishes the role of Masonry saying: “it is historically and irrefutably demonstrable that Freemasonry was not a significant influence...

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THE CHRISTIAN PREAMBLE TO THE CONSTITUTION

Once one gets away from the popular propaganda about the United States being founded as a “Christian nation,” and looks to the real history, the pieces of the puzzle make much more sense. In truth, Christians have been lifting up a shout against our “God-less” and “Christ-less” governing documents since they were first written. In 1845 a pastor by the name of...

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