Posts Tagged ‘Quakers’
William Penn founded the Quakers and other tall tales from David Barton
As the Gipper used to say, “there you go again…” David Barton spoke at Liberty University on September 9 and said that William Penn founded the Quakers, the early Unitarians were an evangelical denomination and Thomas Jefferson signed presidential documents “In the Year of Our Lord Christ.” That was just for starters. At about two minutes into…
Read MoreLetter from George Washington to an annual meeting of Quakers
Does Washington, in this letter, sound like he is talking about Christianity alone? George Washington September 1789 Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the persons and consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of rulers, not only to abstain from it themselves, but, according to their stations, to prevent it…
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