Great American secular humanists — John Adams
Fourth in a series:
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."
- John Adams, First vice president and the second president of the United States.
Earlier: James Madison, Harry S. Truman, Thomas Jefferson
posted by One of Many at 9:52 PM
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John Adams and James Madison were both devout, Bible believing Christians. Adams was descendent of New England Puritans and Madison had studied at the Calvinist Presbyterian New Jersey College.
Adams praised a sermon (in a letter to his wife) preached by Presbyterian parson John Witherspoon (President of New Jersey College, later called Princeton Universtity) that led to the signing of the Declaration of Independance. The sermon, by Whitherspoon, himself a signer of the Declaration of Independance, was from the Book of Psalms, in the Holy Bible.
James Madison declared a National day of PRAYER and FASTING, as President, when the British seized Washington, DC during the War of 1812.
Thomas Jefferson, a Deist, still said that our rights come from our "CREATOR", and therefore are "inalienable". Read it in the Declaration of Independance that he wrote.
How can you claim these men were secular Humanists?
Even the US Constitution mentions the "Year of our LORD" in its opening words. It was written by James Madison.
Sincerely in Christ,
George Theiss
USMC Vietnam Veteran
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