Randomly looked up that George Washington quote in your signature. He apparently never said it.
Sure 'apparently', according to wikiquote's exhaustive research back to the 1700's lol. Hopefully the usual suspects won't get triggered again, I'll happily continue this debate on the CE.
The Faith of George Washington
But eyewitnesses gave many reports of seeing our nation’s first Commander-in-Chief spend much time in prayer.
He was also a man who read the Bible a great deal, as well as the 1662 Book of Common Prayer of the Anglican Church.
Peter Lillback also said, “We know that he called Jesus the Divine Author of our blessed religion, and he said, We can’t be a happy nation unless we follow His example; we need to imitate Him.” This is a paraphrase of Washington’s “
Circular to the States” of June 1783.
George Washington’s favorite Bible verse came from Micah 4:4 in the Old Testament: “But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.” He viewed this as a metaphor for the new nation. Here in America you would not be persecuted for your supposedly heterodox religious or political views.
We live in an era where the heroes of yesteryear are often vilified. It’s hard to believe that George Washington, “the father of our country,” fits in that category. Barbarians in the streets have even gone after statues of George Washington to topple them. I have recently made a film on George...
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Possibly the most direct evidence of Washington’s personal faith in Jesus Christ comes from a prayer journal found at Mount Vernon in the late 19th century. This is what many conservative evangelicals, including Tim LaHaye, point to in responding to skeptics like Remsberg and Ellis. The prayers contained in the journal include phrases that echo the most ardent Christian of today. In one, the journal declares, “Increase my faith in the sweet promises of the gospel; give me repentance from dead works; pardon my wanderings, and direct my thoughts unto thyself, the God of my salvation.”19
In another passage, we find the words, “Unite us all in praising and glorifying thee in all our works begun, continued, and ended, when we shall come to make our last account before thee blessed Savior.” lt then closes with the Lord’s Prayer.
When confronted with today's controversy over religion and morality in the public square, conservative evangelicals often argue that the Founding Fathers were God-fearing, Bible-believing Christians who saw the United States as a divinely ordained "shining city" in the New World. The Left...
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