Faith of Our (Founding) Fathers

Jews in Christian America
   
 "I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. They preserve and propagate to all mankind the doctrine of a supreme, intelligent, wise, almighty Sovereign of the Universe, which I believe to be the great essential principle of all morality, and consequently of all civilization". — John Adams[1]
 
 "To the Jews were first committed the care of the sacred Writings ... Yet was the providence of God particularly manifest in their preservation and purity. The Jews were so faithful in their important trust." — Jonathan Witherspoon[1]
 
 Elias Boudinot, president of Congress in 1782-83, served as president of the "Society for Ameliorating [improving] the State of the Jews" and made personal a provision to bring persecuted Jews to America where they could find safety.[1]
 
 

"I desperately want my children to have the option of living peacefully and productively in the United States of America. I am certain this depends upon America regaining its Christian-oriented moral compass.

"In defending Christianity in America, I am not suggesting that Jews ought to embrace the Christian faith ... But I am suggesting, at the very least, that Jews should stop speaking and acting as if Christian America is their enemy. I feel that all Americans who love freedom, whether or not they are religious, should be reassured, not frightened, by the reawakening of earnest Christianity throughout the land. I shall try to establish that Jews as well as other minorities have the most to fear from a post-Christian America." — Rabbi Daniel Lapin[1]

"It is not an accident that America has provided the most tranquil haven of prosperity that Jews have enjoyed in two thousand years. And that's because America is a Christian nation. It is not in spite of that. I always think of America's Bible Belt as Judaism's safety belt." — Rabbi Daniel Lapin[37]

   
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