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Founders' Views on FaithThe Founders' Views on Faith
"Whether it's the decades-long stint
without girlfriends, the endless hours playing Warcraft 17, or just the general
lackluster existence of a liberal blogger - lefties in the blog-o-sphere seem to
have a general hatred for God. They are on a mission to erase God from the
history books, and the revisionist history has even stretched to the Founders
who are often described today as atheists and deists. What's the truth? What
were the Founders' views on Faith? Author of Sacred Fire, Dr. Peter A. Lillback,
makes the case...
Faith mattered greatly to our Founders. Consider, for example, the words of the
First Continental Congress in 1774:
That it is an indispensable duty which we owe to God, our country, ourselves and
posterity, by all lawful ways and means in our power to maintain, defend and
preserve these civil and religious rights and liberties for which many of our
father fought, bled and died, and to hand them down entire to future
generations.
Many contemporary historians and media figures have trouble, however, speaking
of what our Founders called “an indispensable duty which we owe to God”. The
reason is that many of our contemporaries no longer believe what our founders
believed. As a result they usually misunderstand our courageous forbearers. Or
even worse, many modern and post-modern writers and reporters suppress, delete,
expunge or outright deny our Founders’ cherished spiritual commitments.
Consequently, some contemporary media communicators, such as Will Bunch with
MediaMatters (“Beck pushes distorted view of George Washington’s Christianity to
No. 1”) seek to refute those who celebrate, defend and advocate our Founders’
views of faith by ridicule and reductionism..." Full Text:
The Founders' views on Faith by Dr. Peter A. Lillback