Some relevant facts about Washington and religion are that he never spoke of Jesus (which would make him NOT like another modern president, George W. In fact, he comes off in most accounts as a comparable figure to modern presidents like Bill Clinton or even Barack Obama - that is, someone who wanted Americans to live with the kind of higher moral purpose that often stems from religion, but at the end of the day was a political figure and not a religious one. His “sacred fire” lit America's path toward civil and religious liberty.īut that's not the picture of Washington that emerges from history. But they cannot ignore this mountain of evidence suggesting Washington's religion was not Deism, but just the sort of low-church Anglicanism one would expect in an 18th century Virginia gentleman.
Secular historians ignore George Washington's ward Nelly Custis, who wrote that doubting his Christian faith was as absurd as doubting his patriotism. In praising “George Washington's Sacred Fire,” author Walter A. Like the work of Texas textbook tainter David Barton, whose revisionist pseudohistory is featured in Beck's " American Revival" tour, the Lillback book on the 1st president reinvents Washington as a fiery Christian. He's also a signer of the anti-abortion, anti-gay-marriage The Manhattan Declaration.īeck - as noted here in the past - has been on a jihad since earlier this year to convert his followers and then the rest of America to his mostly discredited idea that the Founding Fathers weren't just your garden-variety church-going late-18th Century types - ranging from a few born-again Christians to a lot of Deists and some barely believers - but rather intended this nation to be built upon a bedrock of Christianity. In addition to his writings on George Washington and his belief that America's founders didn't intend for a separation of church and state, Lillback - though not a household name in the Philadelphia region - has made news here in the past for his involvement in a website aiming to debunk “The Da Vinci Code” as well as showing his paritioners a controversial 2004 pre-election video on the faith of George W. Peter A Lillback is currently president of the Westminster Theological Seminary in Glenside, and he was the pastor at Proclamation Presbyterian Church in Bryn Mawr. It is such a clear distilled picture of the faith of George Washington. They went back and said, really? What did the author say? He couldn't find this in any of his words. This guy and the co writer, Jerry Newcombe, what this is is they said all of these scholars, all these books, “Oh, they're just atheists, they're deists, they're this, they're there. You will understand the relationship of God and our founders.
You must go out - America, I want you to buy this book today. I'm begging preachers, you are about to lose religious freedom. Our churches stand for nothing, many of them. The simple two-word explanation is Glenn Beck: If you don't know the answer by now, you haven't been paying attention. 2) on, ahead of books by Stieg Larsson and Stephenie Meyer, among others?
How does a four-year-old tome by little-known leader of a Glenside, Pa., seminary, published by a small unknown outfit, dealing with the religious beliefs of a figure who's been dead for two centuries, coming in at a staggering 3.2 pounds in paperback, or 1,208 pages, become a No. But now here's a question that's even more baffling. How does a book become a best-seller? This is a question I often ask myself - for a variety of reasons.
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