A Unitarian Foundation?
That American was founded on Christian principles is undeniable. But, the brand and flavor of Christianity was far from what Pat Robertson or other conservative Christians would admit. Far from being theists, most of the founding fathers were diests. And the more well-known founders were Unitarians, and not Trinitarians! Big differences!
The Jefferson Bible was more of an ethical treatise than a divine book about spiritual matters!
Most of the founding fathers of our constitution would invoke Nature as an authority or speak on a montheistic God, but seldom if ever of a trinitarian headship. In fact, it's written that on more than one occasion, Jefferson proclaimed, "There is not a yound man now living in the United States who will not die an Unitarian." Jefferson was strongly against what he deemed puritanical politicians.
The founding fathers were men who placed great emphasis on reason and conscience.
The conservative, right-wing, fundamentalists of today shun reason, mind, and even thinking as it might lead one into being attached to a demon or worse yet being lost entirely. But for the likes of Jefferson, John Adams, and John Quincy Adams (all three early Presidents), if there's anyone we like to quote from our early American history, it's Benjamin Franklin.
These are his words, "I believe in one God, creator of the Universe. That the most acceptable service we can render to Him is doing good to his other Children. That the soul of Man is immortal, and will be treated with Justice in another Life respecting its conduct in this. As to Jesus of Nazareth, 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; but I apprehend that it has received various corrupting changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some Doubts as to his Divinity; tho' it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an Opportunity of knowing the Truth with less Trouble."
Fighting words for those fundamentalists who use Jefferson and Franklin to push their version of Christianity that isn't anything like the men they quote. Maybe one day our orthodoxy will take a back seat to our othropraxy.
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