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Throughout our nation's history, the religious beliefs of America's founders have been contested and misunderstood. Did our founders advocate Christianity or atheism? In The Faiths of Our Fathers, widely acclaimed historian Alf J. Mapp, Jr. cuts through the historical uncertainty to accurately portray the religious beliefs of eleven of America's founding fathers, including John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. He discovers men with religious beliefs as diverse as their political opinions. These profiles shed light on not only the lives and times of the revolutionary generation but also the role of religion in public life throughout American history.… (meer)
All of our Founding Fathers were Christians, and they built this country on Christian principals. Everybody knows this... but everybody knows George Washington chopped down the Cherry Tree as well, don't they? It will give you something to think about. ( )
I picked up this book as an impulse buy Noble from the “Books for Grads” table as I was checking out of Barnes & Noble last month. The fact that Mapp has done the research from original writings for each of the founders he discusses, and bases his conclusions on this information made the book a worthwhile read for me. I have read a least one biography on most of the founders he discusses; several on some of them. It is my opinion that his conclusions are right on target. And, it is an easy read, also a plus. ( )
The Founders often get pulled into all sides of current debates and none more so than faith. One side says that they are all a pack of church-hating Diests who would exile all Christians if they could. The other claims they were all Bible-thumping zealots who would create a theocracy if they could. The answer, of course, lies somewhere in the middle. Mapp has done some wonderful research and makes some intriguing points. Jefferson hated priests, yes, thought Christ was a mere man, yes, but he also believed in some sort of afterlife. Diest, not really, Christian, not really - actually something in between. This is just an example, but a good one. Mapp talks about some well-known Founders and the less-known ones like Mason, Carroll, and Salomon. An excellent work that takes the middle road. ( )
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Perhaps it should not be surprising that a time such as ours, with markedly increased interest in America's Founding Fathers and in religion, has spawned many questions about the religion of the nation's early patriots.
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Our civil rights...have no dependence on our religious opinions in physics and geometry...The legitimate powers of government extend only to such acts as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. (Thomas Jefferson)
His opposition to slavery manifested in his repeated efforts to eliminate both the importation fo slaves and slavery itself in his native state, to censure the institution in the Declaration of Independence, and to arrest its spread into future states--all of these were driven by a passion beyond the cool dictates of Enlightenment philosophy. (Thomas Jefferson)
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And though we well know that this assembly elected by the people for the ordinary purposes of legislation only, have no power to restrain the acts of succeeding assemblies, constituted with powers equal to our own, and that heretofore to declare this act to be irrevocable would be of no effect in law; yet we are free to declare, and do declare, that the rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present, or to narrow its operation, such act shall be an infringement of natural right.
Throughout our nation's history, the religious beliefs of America's founders have been contested and misunderstood. Did our founders advocate Christianity or atheism? In The Faiths of Our Fathers, widely acclaimed historian Alf J. Mapp, Jr. cuts through the historical uncertainty to accurately portray the religious beliefs of eleven of America's founding fathers, including John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. He discovers men with religious beliefs as diverse as their political opinions. These profiles shed light on not only the lives and times of the revolutionary generation but also the role of religion in public life throughout American history.
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