Words from Our Founders: John Adams, Pt. 2

Words From Our Founders,

The Fourth of July is just around the corner. In honor of our upcoming Independence Day, we are publishing daily quotes from our nation’s founders highlighting the high esteem they had for religion, religious liberty, and virtue.

The following is part of an address by President John Adams, one of the drafters and signers of the Declaration of Independence, issued October 11, 1798.

“[W]e have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

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Poll Shows More Young Americans Doubting Existence of God

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A recent Pew Research Center survey shows that more young Americans (30-years-old and under) have doubted God’s existence. A solid majority of this demographic, 68%, does not doubt God’s existence, however, this is down 15 points from five years ago, when 83% of American millennials indicated that they never doubted God’s existence. Father Jonathan Morris has an interesting take on these results, saying that doubting is not the same thing as not believing. Click here to watch his interview with FOX News.

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Oreo Jumps on the “Gay Pride” Bandwagon

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Apparently not even America’s favorite cream-filled cookie is safe from the “gay pride” bandwagon. Nabisco, which makes the Oreo, celebrated gay pride yesterday by tweeting “Celebrate your pride for love!” and posting this picture. For those who don’t know, Nabisco is owned by PepsiCo. The company got in hot water with millions of pro-life Americans earlier this year when it was discovered that aborted fetal remains were being used to test their food flavors. You can read more about that here.

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