George Washington about God

George Washington - 1st President (1789-1797)
Political Party: Federalist
Denomination: Episcopalian

Joe S....

According to Pat Robertson, Episcopalians are the Anti-Christ.

"You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the
Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing.
Nonsense. I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist. I can
love the people who hold false opinions but I don't have to be nice to
them."--Pat Robertson, The 700 Club, January 14, 1991

So it would appear that G. Washington is anything but godly.

Gray Shockley...

New Name: "Pat Robertson, the 4400 Club"

++ gray (or close enough)

Brian Henderson...

It's questionable whether he was really an Episcopalian or not. The
pastor of the church observed often that Washington would leave in the
middle of services or would simply leave his wife Martha at church and
retrieve her later. Most scholars think he attended church for her
sake, not because he was a believer.

Big Mean Liberal...

Do you have any evidence of this?

Selections from his Inaugural Address - 1789

"Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience
to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be
peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent
supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe,
who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential
aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may
consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the
United States a Government instituted by themselves for these
essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in
its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to
his charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every
public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your
sentiments not less than my own, nor those of my fellow- citizens at
large less than either. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore

the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of

the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the
character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by
some token of providential agency; and in the important revolution just

accomplished in the system of their united government the tranquil
deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities
from which the event has resulted can not be compared with the means by

which most governments have been established without some return of
pious
gratitude, along with an humble anticipation of the future
blessings which the past seem to presage."

"I dwell on this prospect with every satisfaction which an
ardent love for my country can inspire, since there is no truth more
thoroughly established than that there exists in the economy and course

of nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between
duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and
magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and
felicity;
since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of
Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal
rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained..."

"Having thus imparted to you my sentiments as they have
been awakened by the occasion which brings us together, I shall
take my present leave; but not without resorting once more to the
benign Parent of the Human Race in humble supplication that,
since He has been pleased to favor the American people with
opportunities for deliberating in perfect tranquillity, and
dispositions for deciding with unparalleled unanimity on a form of
government for the security of their union and the advancement of their

happiness, so His divine blessing may be equally conspicuous in the
enlarged views, the temperate consultations, and the wise
measures on which the success of this Government must depend."
-from my book, A Nation Under God.

Ken Clifton
-author of A Nation Under God (a source of the quote)
http://www.lulu.com/writingken