Answering the Question of the Founders' faith

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The Founders' views on Faith

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May 25, 2010 - 12:22 ET

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Were the Founders religious?

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By Dr. Peter A. Lillback

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.

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