No, let me clue you in. In ANY libertarian literature, be it the party platform of the Liber(al)tarian Party, the Mises Institute, the libertarian "stink tank" Cato Institute, the Austrian School of Economics; NOWHERE will you find mention of God.
The God of the Founding Fathers was the God of Nature, not the God of the Bible. The Founding Fathers were Deists. They most certainly were not Christians in the modern Evangelical sense. In this post, I will provide you with a number of their quotes to prove that fact. I'll start you off easy with this quote from Thomas Jefferson:
"Where the preamble [of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom] declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting the words “Jesus Christ,” so that it should read, “A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;” the insertion was rejected by a great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination." [Thomas Jefferson,
Autobiography; from George Seldes, ed.,
The Great Quotations, Secaucus, New Jersey: Citadel Press, 1983, p. 363]
I'm very familiar with the Founding Fathers and their writings. You'll notice that my signature says "ONLY for a moral and religious people".
Here's a quote from President John Adams, followed by a brief description of the context in which the quote was made:
"Twenty times in the course of my late reading have I been on the point of breaking out, 'This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!!!' But in this exclamation I would have been as fanatical as Bryant or Cleverly. Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean hell." -- John Adams, quoted from Charles Francis Adams, ed, Works of John Adams (1856), vol. X, p. 254
John Adams is here describing to Thomas Jefferson what he sees as an emotion-based ejaculatory thought that keeps coming to him. This was not his reasoned opinion. Although John Adams often felt an urge to advocate atheism as a popular world view (because of the sheer abuses perpetrated by religious charlatans), he was of the firm and reasoned opinion (basically undisputed in his day) that religion is essential to the goal of keeping the masses in line.
Knowing what we know today, to say this is pure slander against atheists. And yet it is still quite popular, especially among the uneducated, the widespread acknowledgment of its falsehood notwithstanding.
Thus, Adams was not above presenting such travesties as his "National Day of Prayer and Fasting" proclamation. These acts reflected his view that the masses needed religion to keep this world from becoming a bedlam. However, Adams, like Washington and Jefferson, did not apply this reasoning to himself -- as we can plainly see from the quotations in the main section: religion was good for the masses but not for John Adams (for the most part), who was above all that and needed no piety in order to maintain his own sense of civility.
Quoted from:
http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/adams.htm
I'll gladly share the writings of the Founding Fathers with you (I'll start with the 1,067 page book entitled "The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States"), showing for the most part that the Founders were EXTREMELY religious CHRISTIANS.
Again, the Founding Fathers were Deists, not Christians...
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as His father, in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." --Thomas Jefferson, in a Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823.]
Quoted from:
http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/adams.htm
The truth about the religious beliefs of the Founding Fathers is this:
"The founders of our nation were nearly all Infidels, and that of the presidents who had thus far been elected [i.e., Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Adams, Jackson] not a one had professed a belief in Christianity."
"Among all our presidents from Washington downward, not one was a professor of religion, at least not of more than
Unitarianism."
-- The Reverend Doctor Bird Wilson, an Episcopal minister in Albany, New York, in a sermon preached in October, 1831. First sentence quoted in John E Remsberg,
Six Historic Americans, second sentence quoted in Paul F Boller,
George Washington & Religion, pp. 14-15
We were founded as a "Christian Nation".
"...
the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion...The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation." -- from the
Treaty of Tripoli (1797), carried unanimously by the Senate and signed into law by President John Adams (the original language is by Joel Barlow, US Consul)
