Influence of Religion in the U.S.

By tommybrunner

  • The Founding of Massachussetts Bay

  • Presidents take the Oath of Office with a Bible

    Most of our country's presidents have sworn oath with their hand on a bible. The only presidents to not do this were John Quincy Adams and Theodore Roosevelt

  • The First Amendment

    The First Amendment says, "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise of thereof."

  • Thomas Jefferson's Religious Views

    Jefferson admired Jesus as a moral teacher, but he had a visceral loathing for priest craft. Jefferson was a deist, believing in a creator who set the universe and its laws in motion but did not intervene thereafter.

  • Texas Textbooks contain biased, unaccurate content