I just found this gem of a question on Quora: “America is a Protestant country, not Catholic, Muslim, Jewish, or otherwise. Do we need President Trump (a Protestant) back to lead us, as opposed to Biden, who is Catholic?”
Boy, oh boy, oh boy. There are so many false premises and misconceptions in this question, it’s hard to know where to start.
First of all, let me tell you: Joe Biden is as much as a Catholic as Elizabeth Warren is a Native American.
Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Anthony Fauci are pretty much the opposites of what a Catholic (or anyone calling themselves a Christian) should be. And make no mistake: Trump is not much more of a Christian than they are. Asked at a town hall meeting about his personal faith journey, he sputtered and stammered, and finally saved his hide by raving about all the “fine evangelical Christians” he’d met during his time in office.
I think it’s fair to say that 99.9% of politicians who profess to be Christians are faking it to get the Christian/Catholic votes of the gullible and uninformed. The simple reason that there are so few politicians who are truly practicing Christians is that politics doesn’t mix well with religion, which generally forbids the faithful to lie, cheat, steal, manipulate others, and engage in things I won’t even mention here.
Most recent case in point: Fani Willis, DA of Fulton County, GA, who is accused of adultery, stealing public funds, and hiring her married lover to prosecute and destroy a political enemy (Donald Trump), just received the Black Achievement Award at her church. Accepting the trophy, she held a brief sermon quoting the Bible verse, “No weapon formed against you shall prosper.”
The Lord is truly merciful and good—because frankly, if I were Him, I’d feel like raining fire and brimstone down on this evil, degenerate world 24/7. (Not that He won’t eventually, but His patience is amazing.)
Another misconception is that America is a Protestant country. The debate about whether the Founding Fathers were Christians has been raging for centuries, but the answer is quite more nuanced than the question above.
While it is true that most of the Founders were raised in one or the other Protestant denomination (from Anglican to Presbyterian, Congregationalist, Lutheran, and more, with a few Catholics strewn in for good measure), some of them were Deists rather than Christians.
Here is a detailed article by Encyclopedia Britannica that describes the vast influence of Deism on 18th-century Americans. Britannica defines Deism as a “natural religion, the acceptance of a certain body of religious knowledge that is inborn in every person or that can be acquired by the use of reason and the rejection of religious knowledge when it is acquired through either revelation or the teaching of any church.”
How do you know a Deist from an orthodox Christian? By their fruits you shall know them, says Britannica. Most likely…
Deists would not have attended church as much as orthodox Protestants.
Deists may have been baptized, but were less likely to have been confirmed or to receive communion on a regular basis.
Deists were more likely to use non-biblical language to describe God, such as Providence, Merciful Providence, Divine Goodness, the Creator, Ruler of Great Events, or Nature’s God.
There were Christian and non-Christian types of Deists. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, says Britannica, were likely among the first type, whereas Ethan Allen, James Monroe, and Thomas Paine—who wrote impassioned diatribes against the God of the Bible in his book, The Age of Reason—were non-Christian Deists.
What the Britannica article doesn’t mention is that some of the Founders—especially among the Deists—were also Freemasons.
The website georgewashington.org claims that Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Richard Henry Lee, John Hancock, and of course George Washington himself were Freemasons. (See the painting of Washington in full masonic garb above.)
In contrast to what it claims to be—a benevolent fraternity that aims, through philanthropy, to make the world a better place—Freemasonry is a secret society whose philosophy is not only non-Christian but literally ANTI-Christian. There is a good reason that the Catholic Church does not allow Catholics to be Freemasons too.
It is not openly talked about, and even the lower ranks of the Freemasons themselves often don’t know this: Freemasons are at their heart Luciferians. In his seminal work, Morals and Dogma, to this day one of the most important books to Freemasons, Albert Pike, one of the much-revered grandmasters of Freemasonry, writes,
LUCIFER, the Light-Bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the light and with its splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish Souls? Doubt it not! for traditions are full of Divine Revelations and Inspirations: and Inspiration is not of one Age nor of one Creed.
Freemasons engage in magic, witchcraft, and the worship of Egyptian deities, all things strictly forbidden by God. They are one of the powerful forces behind the modernization and secularization attempts in the Church.
If you have any further doubts that Freemasonry is bad news, consider that in the Catholic rites of exorcism, there are specific prayers to break the “Freemasonic curse”—a curse that, through the taking of solemn and cruel oaths, is handed down for generations by members of the lodges to their descendants.
Now consider that many of the Founding Fathers were deeply immersed in this masonic mindset.
That’s why we should never put too much trust and hope into any one politician (or any one human in general). No matter how much some people would like to believe it, Trump is not the messiah or our savior. (FYI, he’s not the devil either. Looking at you, Democrats.) Only Jesus can save us, and we’ll do well to remember this as the election year ramps up.
God bless you!
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There is a lot of truth in this article. I would add that this deism from the founders has morphed into something new today, a combination of occultism and mysticism, a mix of yoga, “mindfulness” and anything else that is worldly and not centered around God and suffering but instead comfort and our own free will.
Excellent piece!!! Thank You for this!!!