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Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
IMDB rating: 7.60
Plot: A family traveling through New Salem in their covered wagon need groceries from Abe Lincoln’s store and the only thing of value they have that he’ll take in exchange is a law book. He talks about his ambitions with a young woman. She dies. He moves to nearby Springfield, the new state capital, and opens a law office with a friend. He meets a young woman visiting from Kentucky, who wasn’t born in a log cabin, Mary Todd. Then when a man is killed at a 4th of July picnic he stops a lynching by telling the angry mob he really needs these clients for his first real case.
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Directors: Ford John
Actors: Fonda Henry,Collins Eddie,Cromwell Richard,Meek Donald,Quillan Eddie,Charters Spencer,Bond Ward,Adams Ernie,Ash Sam,Aylesworth Arthur,Drama,
Why did the founding fathers of this nation, have such a pessimistic view of Christians and/or Christianity?
I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies.
– Benjamin Franklin,
10 minutes ago
Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
– Benjamin Franklin
9 minutes ago
The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on nothing; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing and admits of no conclusion.
– Thomas Paine,
9 minutes ago
"The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?"
[John Adams]
8 minutes ago
"The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries."
[James Madison, 1803]
6 minutes ago
My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.
– Abraham Lincoln
In religion, Mr. Lincoln was about of the same opinion as Bob Ingersoll, and there is no account of his ever having changed. He went to church a few times with his family while he was President, but so far as I have been able to find out, he remained an unbeliever. Mr. Lincoln in his younger days wrote a book, in which he endeavored to prove the fallacy of the plan of salvation and the divinity of Christ."
– Judge James M. Nelson,
5 minutes ago
short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandising their oppressors in Church and State; that the purest system of morals ever before preached to man, has been adulterated and sophisticated by artificial constructions, into a mere contrivance to filch wealth and power to themselves; that rational men not being able to swallow their impious heresies, in order to force them down their throats, they raise the hue and cry of infidelity, while themselves are the greatest obstacles to the advancement of the real doctrines of Jesus, and do in fact constitute the real Anti-Christ.
– Thomas Jefferson
3 minutes ago
I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul…. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life — our desire to go on living — our dread of coming to an end.
– Thomas Edison
Threaty of tripoli
Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/trea ty_tripoli.html
More accurately a pessimistic view of all religion in general.
More accurately a pessimistic view of all religion in general.
@sorry sista
Yeah sure.Your ignorance is truly bliss
DCFN
The founding fathers were from Britain, not Europe. This was a British colony. Second, Britain was protestant, not catholic. And still today is Protestant.
20 GREATEST NAMES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
John Adams – Spoke favorably of Freemasonry — never joined
Samuel Adams – (Close and principle associate of Hancock, Revere & other Masons
Ethan Allen – Mason
Edmund Burke – Mason
John Claypoole – Mason
William Daws – Mason
Benjamin Franklin – Mason
Nathan Hale – No evidence of Masonic connections
John Hancock – Mason
Benjamin Harrison – No evidence of Masonic connections
Patrick Henry – No evidence of Masonic connections
Thomas Jefferson – Deist with some evidence of Masonic connections
John Paul Jones – Mason
Francis Scott Key – No evidence of Masonic connections
Robert Livingston – Mason
James Madison – Some evidence of Masonic membership
Thomas Paine – Humanist
Paul Revere – Mason
Colonel Benjamin Tupper – Mason
George Washington – Mason
Daniel Webster – Some evidence of Masonic connections
Summary: 10 Masons, 3 probable Masons, 1 Humanist, 2 Advocates of Freemasonry, 4 no record of connections.
Rene O | Jan 29, 2010
Because it’s childish superstition practiced by bloodthirsty psychopaths.
I know: picky, picky, picky.
ungodly | Jan 29, 2010
They were intellectuals of the Enlightenment, the greatest movement since agriculture.
Exile | Jan 29, 2010
they came from England when christianity was illegal because the king wasn’t allowed to divorce
jake | Jan 29, 2010
They were all raised in Buddhist households.
Vajrasiddha | Jan 29, 2010
Those are excellent quotes! The founding fathers were Satanic and for all the right reasons.
Daemon | Jan 29, 2010
The founding fathers were Christian. And they did not include Abraham Lincoln or Thomas Edison.
HTacianas | Jan 29, 2010
Most of those people were atheists or closet atheists like Abe.
So there is your answer.
Joshua | Jan 29, 2010
They were Christians. You have a lot of misinformation as to their quotes, writings and who they were.
sorry sista | Jan 29, 2010
I believe that the founding fathers of the USA had such a pessimistic view of Christianity because in Europe at that time, Catholicism prevailed among the Christians (I’m not sure when the Holy Bible KJV was written and distributed first), and Catholics tended to want everyone in the world to be Christian. At that time in Europe, anyone who was not Catholic was suspected of being a criminal element, if my memory of history classes serves me correctly. One of your quotes states that, and I paraphrase, Christianity veered from the teachings of Jesus, which I believe to be true to this day. Jesus only persecuted people once, and that was within the walls of a temple where there were money-changers who were cheating the pious within the temple. In the 18th century, however, Christians persecuted many. Many of the USA’s founding fathers were from Britain and Europe.
DCFN | Jan 29, 2010
not every one did
thomas jefferson said more about how he liked christianity then this one comment you posted
people like to take one quote to make it sound like that was their whole opinion when it wasn’t
such as these quotes that thomas jefferson also said
Thomas Jefferson:
