The Life Foundations
Nexus
GEORGE WASHINGTON
WAS A PROTESTANT
Information
in this article has also been published on the Protestant America
website.
George
Washington was, indeed, a Protestant.
In fact, all of the founding fathers – Washington, Jefferson (Jefferson
was NOT a deist), Franklin, Adams, etc., etc. – were Protestant. Furthermore, the population of the Thirteen
Colonies during the time of the Revolutionary War was almost completely (about
99%) Protestant. We note that you will
find a number of websites on the Internet that attempt to distort and mislead
people about these and a number of other facts. For that reason we have built the America & Protestantism Database,
which contains the answers to over one million questions, to refute the false
claims made by these websites.
Let us clarify the meaning of the word
“Protestant.” The modern (present-day) word
“Protestant” means nothing more than “someone who is a Christian and who is not
a Roman Catholic.” The historical
(past) meaning of the word “Protestant” is only used by historians and
acadamecians (teachers). You can find
the historical meaning of the word “Protestant” in many sources. We note in passing, using the modern meaning
of the word “Protestant,” that there were Protestants BEFORE the Roman Catholic
Church was formed.