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Talk:Founding Fathers quotes that mention God (view source)
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You must admit that most of them were actually deist.
You must admit that most of them were actually deist.
:WRONG. First, you're taking those quotes out of context, like so many others have done. Second, you never bothered to read what the Founders had to say, beyond those quotes. As homework, you're going to read the letters, speeches, and writings of both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams - completely, and at least one biography by an author who personally knew both. [[User:Karajou|Karajou]] ([[User talk:Karajou|talk]]) 20:23, 3 April 2017 (EDT)
:WRONG. First, you're taking those quotes out of context, like so many others have done. Second, you never bothered to read what the Founders had to say, beyond those quotes. As homework, you're going to read the letters, speeches, and writings of both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams - completely, and at least one biography by an author who personally knew both. [[User:Karajou|Karajou]] ([[User talk:Karajou|talk]]) 20:23, 3 April 2017 (EDT)
::The problem with that claim, Coolguy, is that most of them weren't.
::"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and Bible." - George Washington
::"Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do---then do it with all your strength." - George Washington
::"God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God?
::That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever; That a revolution of the wheel of fortune, a change of situation, is among possible events; that it may become probable by Supernatural influence! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in that event." - Thomas Jefferson
::"Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped." - Benjamin Franklin
::The list can go on and on. Those who pray, study the word, and seek to do God's will, trusting in Him always to do what is best should not be called deists. This mostly, if not entirely, a claim invented in revisionist history. --[[User:DavidB4|<font color="ForestGreen">David B</font>]] <sup>([[User talk:DavidB4|TALK]])</sup> 20:26, 3 April 2017 (EDT)