Would President George Washington be considered an Atheist today? president Thomas Jefferson indicated George Washington didn't believe in that system, and if you asked him the confirm that he was a Christian he would dodge the directly answering that ques

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Anonymous 02/20/16 (Sat) 18:21:22 5073cc No.14190

Would President George Washington be considered an Atheist today? president Thomas Jefferson indicated George Washington didn't believe in that system, and if you asked him the confirm that he was a Christian he would dodge the directly answering that question unlike politicians today.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_George_Washington#Eyewitness_accounts

Washington himself didn't take communion at church and said he had never done so.

http://infidels.org/library/historical/john_remsburg/six_historic_americans/chapter_3.html

>The Rev. Dr. Wilson, who was almost a contemporary of our earlier statesmen and presidents, and who thoroughly investigated the subject of their religious beliefs, in his sermon already mentioned affirmed that the founders of our nation were nearly all Infidels, and that of the presidents who had thus far been elected – George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, and Andrew Jackson – not one had professed a belief in Christianity.

Anonymous 02/20/16 (Sat) 18:29:22 5073cc No.14191

I especially love how whenever communion was about to start Washington would abruptly stand up and walk out of the church, ignoring any whispering or gossip it might cause. When a reverend confronted him about his bad behavior and for not setting a good example, he said It was the first time he had been preached to, and he wouldn't cause any trouble again. After that he simply stopped coming on days when communion was offered!

Anonymous 02/20/16 (Sat) 20:47:51 fe1977 No.14193

Like 6 of 7 of the key figures we call founding fathers were deists not Christians. It would be cool to meet Jefferson and Washington hanging in their circle-jerk club of Atheists and Deists, or in a secluded corner of a Freemasonry lodge. Jefferson would be feverishly cutting contradictions out of the bible with scissors and beating on his fedora, while he and Madison ranted about how much harm clergy have done in the history of mankind, and how this country could be better without their meddling. Benjamin Franklin would be talking about the inventions he had made with reason and human ingenuity without help from god.

http://www.freethought.mbdojo.com/foundingfathers.html

02/21/16 (Sun) 02:31:36 4eb71a No.14195

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>>14190

A better example is Thomas Jefferson, who edited the Gospels to present Jesus Christ as moral philosopher with no mystic woo-hoo.

If an American politician did that nowadays, they ruin him.

Anonymous 02/21/16 (Sun) 03:10:57 5073cc No.14196

>>14195

Jefferson was called an Atheist in his time too, but he still won over Hamilton who may also have been a deist. (A priest converted Hamilton back to his boyhood religion on his death bed after 30 hours of suffering from a gunshot wound, much to Thomas Paine's consternation.)