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2019-04-09 2019-04-09

The Founding Faith Archive

Early documents on religious freedom and the spiritual beliefs of the Founding Fathers.

Authors

Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
George Washington
John Adams
Benjamin Franklin
Patrick Henry
Isaac Backus

Topics

Danbury Baptists
Establishments
Baptists
Connecticut
Attacks On Jefferson
Catholics
Promoting Religion
Protestants
Pacifism
Tolerance
Epitaphs
Massachusetts
Religious Persecution
US Government
Thomas Paine
Pluralism
Promoting Morality
Corruption Of Christianity
Congregational
Trinity

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Founding Faith

“If asked to recommend the best book on this controversial topic, I would choose Founding Faith.”

- Joseph Ellis, author of American CreationFounding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America

Letter from Jefferson to the Danbury Baptists

The Danbury Baptist Association was founded in 1790 as a coalition of about 26 churches in the Connecticut Valley. Connecticut...

The Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom

Thomas Jefferson would put the passage of this law as one of his greatest accomplishments. Although Jefferson wrote the measure,...

Letter from James Madison to Reverend Adams

As an old man, James Madison believed that the quality and quantity of religious practice had grown when government support of...

Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Mrs Samuel H Smith

After a friend reports that she'd heard that Jefferson had become religious, Jefferson scathingly explains that his views had...

Letter from George Washington to George Washington Snyder

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