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Our Founding fathers.... Thomas Jefferson. Although Jefferson did admire the morality of Jesus, Jefferson did not think him divine. John Adams, a Unitarian, who flatly denied the doctrine of eternal damnation. James Madison, who wrote: During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution. Ben Franklin would not have fared well as a guest on the 700 Club, and Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense, wrote: I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my church. In fact, fewer than 10% of the early Americans belonged to congregations. George Washington never once wrote the word Jesus in the thousands of his letters that survived. Article 11 so states that the United States was not founded on Christian Religion. What was it founded on? It seems the Fathers of our Country would have fit in well with the way our country is today. Though belief is higher than 10% I wonder just how high sin would be in a graph today? Our fathers' God to Thee,
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