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Our Founding Fathers Were Christian & Our Country Is Based On Christianity.

Of the 55 delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention, 49 were Protestants (28 Episcopalian, 8 Presbyterians, 7 Congregationalists, 2 Lutherans, 2 Dutch Reformed, and 2 Methodists), and 2 were Roman Catholics [1]

That leaves 51 Christians and 4 others. The other four being

1. Benjamin Franklin (Deist)If there was any question as to who Benjamin Franklin believed was the author of his body…his belief is summed up in just one sentence. “As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of morals and His religion as He left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see.”

2. George Washington (Deist or Episcopal)-George Washington said in his speech to the Delaware Indian Chiefs in 1779 that “You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you a greater and happier people than you are. (George Washington, The Writings of Washington

1. James Madison (Deist or Episcopal)

1. Hugh Williamson (Deist or Presbyterian)

Significantly Not Present:

Thomas Jefferson (Christian deism)-It’s fine if you’d like to call Thomas Jefferson and others like him “deists” but Jefferson was a hardcore Christian before he was anything else. On January 9th 1816, Jefferson wrote to Charles Thomson declaring “I am a real Christian – that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus Christ” (Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ,

John Adams (Unitarianism),

John Hancock (Unitarian Universalism),

Samuel Adams (Congregational)–Samuel Adams who is considered the “Father of the American Revolution” asked the State of Massachusetts to pray that “the peaceful and glorious reign of our Divine Redeemer may be known and enjoyed throughout the whole family of mankind.”

-Alexander Hamilton’s famous duel with Aaron Burr, Hamilton laid on his bed and gave his final testimony to the Rev. J. M. Mason and Rev. Benjamin Moore. He told them that “I have a tender reliance on the mercy of the Al¬mighty, through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ.”

-Patrick Henry tells Archibald Blair that “The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.”

“Being a Christian… is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.”

John Jay makes it clear to John Murray in 1816 that the United States is a Christian nation. He says, “Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation, to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” (William Jay, The Life of John Jay

John Jay was a Founding Fathers’ founding father. He was president of the Continental Congress in 1778-79 and was a negotiator of the Treaty of Paris which formally ended the Revolutionary War in 1783. He wrote five of the Federalist Papers and served as the first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, from 1789-95. 

Jay was also a devoted follower of Christ and served for more than a decade as either vice-president or president of the American Bible Society. In an 1816 letter he wrote to John Murray, a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, he said: 

"Real (emphasis in original) Christians will abstain from violating the rights of others, and therefore will not provoke war. Almost all nations have peace or war at the will and pleasure of rulers whom they do not elect, and who are not always wise or virtuous. Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest, of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers." (Emphasis mine.) 

Jay noted that one of the most precious gifts God has given to the citizens of America is the opportunity to choose our own rulers and shape the destiny and future of our country. The vast majority of people around the world do not have that privilege. They have the political leadership they are stuck with and have no say in the matter. 

You will note in passing that Jay had no hesitation in referring to the United States as “our Christian nation,” which should lay the question of whether we were founded as a Christian nation to rest. If anybody would know, it would be him. 

Jay observed that it is the “duty” of the Christian citizens of America to “select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” So for Jay it was incumbent upon American citizens to evaluate the spirituality of candidates in a good faith effort to gauge the sincerity and authenticity of their Christian faith. Even in Jay’s day, there were politicians who made a show and a pretense of their Christian faith but were not what Jay called “real” Christians. It is perhaps even more likely that politicians today will try to pander to evangelicals by claiming a street cred on religion that they do not actually possess. Discernment is the order of the day. 

Jay was clear and direct about why choosing only authentic followers of Christ was critical for America’s political health and it’s future: “No human society has ever been able to maintain both order and freedom, both cohesiveness and liberty apart from the moral precepts of the Christian religion… Should our Republic ever forget this fundamental precept of governance…this great experiment will then surely be doomed.” 

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John Jay makes it clear to John Murray in 1816 that the United States is a Christian nation. He says, “Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation, to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” (William Jay, The Life of John Jay (New York: J. & J. Harper, 1833), Vol. II, p. 376