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Though not as openly religious as some of the [[Founding Fathers]], Lee was nonetheless a firm Christian. He was a member of the Episcopal Church throughout his life, and his opposition to the [[French Revolution]] (which sparked his return to the Federalists) was based partly on his view of it as a mortal threat to Christian civilization. In one of his last letters, he urged his sons to place their trust in the Christian faith, without being dogmatic about their particular branch of it.
Though not as openly religious as some of the [[Founding Fathers]], Lee was nonetheless a firm Christian. He was a member of the Episcopal Church throughout his life, and his opposition to the [[French Revolution]] (which sparked his return to the Federalists) was based partly on his view of it as a mortal threat to Christian civilization. In one of his last letters, he urged his sons to place their trust in the Christian faith, without being dogmatic about their particular branch of it.
Biographers of Lee's son Robert E. Lee, the future Confederate general, have sometimes argued that his father's life was a formative experience for him: on the one hand, Robert strove to uphold the nation and the principles his father had fought for; on the other hand, he was careful to avoid the debts and disgrace that had come upon Henry Lee late in life.
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