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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

Massachusetts Court
New Plymouth
Adams-Jefferson Letters
Patrick Henry
Christopher Columbus
Heaven
Puritans
Plymouth Plantation
George Washington
Declaration Of Independence
Franklin's Religious Beliefs
Oaths
John Winthrop
Locke
Pacifism
Catholic Church
Benjamin Rush
Illuminati
Continental Congress
Masschusetts

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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

the Expence of the Institutions for the Instruction of Peopl

The Jefferson Bible The Life Morals of Jesus of Nazareth

Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Dr Thomas Cooper

Jefferson believed Unitarianism would become the dominant religion. He also explains why he has no professor of divinity at...

New Jersey Constitution of 1776

Articles 18 and 19 outlawed a religious establishment, prohibiting the use of tax dollars to support any religion. However it...

Diary of John Adams August 14 1796

Adams lays out the mechanics of why religion is particularly effective at promoting morality.

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