Thursday, May 28, 2009  George Washington on the Bible:
Unfortunately I can't give a clear cut answer as to exactly what
GW thought of the Bible, because he never told. However, I can
make some general observations.  First, the record does not
demonstrate that GW thought the Bible the inerrant infallible
Word of God. It's possible; but I doubt it. It's even MORE
unlikely that Washington, like the strict Deists, didn't believe
in ANY of the Bible as divine revelation.  Washington quoted
from the Bible quite a bit. Indeed in his new book, The
Political Philosophy of George Washington, Jeffry H. Morris
claims that GW quoted from the Bible more than any other source,
including Joseph Addison's Cato, which came in second.  I'm
enjoying reading Morrison's book and I agree with the
overwhelming majority of what I have so far seen. He argues GW's
political philosophy was a synthesis of classical Greco-Roman
ideas, moderate British Enlightenment ideas, and Protestant
Christianity. After Bernard Bailyn, I noted someth