The Founding Fathers - Christian?
7/21/2005 | Share this article:
GEORGE WASHINGTON Episcopalian minister Bird Wilson remarked in 1831 that “Washington is no more than a Unitarian, if anything.”
Washington was, by his own admission, an irregular church-goer, although he was a vestryman. When he did attend services, he studiously avoided taking Communion. Wrote his adopted daughter of him, “My father was not one of those to act or pray so that he ‘might be seen by men.’ He communed with his own God in secret.”
In his lifetime, Washington never gave personal affirmation that Jesus was the Son of God. There is no evidence that he ever encouraged his children to read the Bible, attend church, believe in Christ or practice religion in any manner whatsoever.
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