"Republicanchick" is expressing nostalgia for a period in American history that never existed!
George Washington: - never declared himself a Christian according to contemporary reports or in any of his extensive personal correspondence
- championed the cause of freedom from religious intolerance and compulsion.
- appointed John Murray (a universalist who denied the existence of hell) to become an army chaplain despite petitions from other chaplains for his dismissal
- on his deathbed, Washington uttered no words of a religious nature and did not call for a clergyman to be in attendance.
John Adams: - "This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!"
Thomas Jefferson: - "Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man."
- "I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature."
James Madison: -"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise."
Benjamin Franklin: - "I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies."
Thomas Paine: "All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."
The Treaty of Tripoli: - passed by the U.S. Senate in 1797
- read in part: "The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion."
Abraham Lincoln: - "The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma."
Jesus says His followers are not of the world. People who claim to be a Christian yet get involved with politics don't know their own faith.
The reality is that most so called true and saved Christians are deeply involved with the politics.
True Christians ought to stay out of politics.
Politics are not of Jesus.