Throughout this nation many people are convinced that the United States has to be a Christian nation and that it’s Founding Fathers wanted it that way. This article shows what many of the Founding Fathers really said about religion, Christianity, and the Bible. It would surprise and even shock most people, Christian and non-Christian alike to learn that:
Thomas Jefferson, who became the third president of the United States, compared the sayings of Jesus in the New Testament to diamonds in a dunghill. He also likened the teaching of Jesus being born from a virgin to a pagan Roman myth about a goddess being conceived in the brain of a god.
Thomas Paine, who inspired American revolutionaries with his writings, said that the Bible was stupid, Christianity repugnant, and the Old Testament might as well be the word of a demon.
John Adams, who became the second president of the United States, wrote that the belief that Jesus came down to earth to be crucified - Christianity’s most sacred teaching - was an “awful blasphemy” to the “great Principle” of creation that had to be eliminated or “there never will be any liberal science in the world.”
Imagine Obama saying all of that and see what an uproar it would cause.
This article is excerpted from the book The Ten Commandments Of Our Founding Fathers which I authored. It is available at Amazon.com and Smashwords.com. The book includes links to, and photo-images of, the original manuscripts and texts from which the quotes are taken.
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