Faith of Our Founding FathersSecular textbooks now fill our classrooms, while the Ten Commandments have been removed from their walls. Is this the vision held by those who worked to found this nation? What faith did our founding fathers truly believe and practice in their daily lives, and what does it really matter for us? Were they God-fearing, Bible-believing Christians or simply enlightened Deists, Transcendentalists, and Unitarians? |
Contents
The Five Most Influential Founding Fathers 125 | 125 |
Alexander Hamilton of New York | 138 |
Outstanding Christians Among the Founding Fathers 144 | 144 |
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