Does George Washington believe in God?

Answer 1

No, he was a Bible believing Christian. In 1799 he was speaking to the Delaware Indian chiefs. He said," You do well to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you a greater and happier people then you are. Congress will do everything they can to assist you in this wise intention."

Deists do not believe in a relationship with Jesus Christ or any 'god'. George Washington was very prominent and clear that he DID believe in a relationship with Jesus.

Of the original 55 members that helped draft what became our Constitution, 29 were ministers or leaders in their church. The idea of a separation between the church and the state is not one that is found anywhere in our Constitution. The term came from a letter to the baptist conference in Connecticut some 13 years after the drafting of our Constitution. In the letter Thomas Jefferson assured the conference that the State would have "a wall of separation" which would ban the State from making any law against the free expression of any religious belief that the STATE could never break down. It was never intended to mean the restriction of any religious belief or to worrying about those that could be offended by the same. The original design of our country was about freedom and the ability to expression it freely. Liberal courts have changed that to be freedom from religion, which is technically not a desired goal for those that founded the country.

Washington in particular did not believe that Government could remain moral without God (term used as you wish) being a central and needed foundation. He also mandated that his officers attend church regularly. While traveling for the Continental Congress his attendance was less the stellar, attending roughly every other week.

Answer 2

Of course he did. People seem to forget that it was very common during the day of Washington to refer mostly to the name of God as Providence and the Almighty, but there was many times he referred to the Christian faith.

"Assist me, Muse divine, to sing the morn On which the Savior of mankind was born

[SOURCE: George Washington, poem, age 13, from Sparks's Washington, p. 519, quoted from Franklin Steiner, The Religious Beliefs of Our Presidents, p. 20]

While encamped on the banks of a river, Washington was approached by Delaware Indian chiefs who desired that their youth be trained in American schools. In Washington's response, he first told them that "Congress... will look on them as on their own children." That is, we would train their children as if they were our own. He then commended the chiefs for their decision:

You do well to wish to learn our arts and our ways of life and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you a greater and happier people than you are. Congress will do everything they can to assist you in this wise intention

George Washington's Speech to Delaware Indian Chiefs on May 12, 1779, in John C. Fitzpatrick, editor, The Writings of George Washington, Vol. XV (Washinton: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1932), p. 55.

And he mentions the character of a CHRISTIAN

While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian."

-The Writings of Washington, pp. 342-343

" O Most Glorious God, in Jesus Christ, my merciful and loving Father; I acknowledge and confess my guilt in the weak and imperfect performance of the duties of this day. I have called on Thee for pardon and forgiveness of my sins, but so coldly and carelessly that my prayers are become my sin, and they stand in need of pardon."

" I have sinned against heaven and before Thee in thought, word, and deed. I have contemned Thy majesty and holy laws. I have likewise sinned by omitting what I ought to have done and committing what I ought not. I have rebelled against the light, despising Thy mercies and judgment, and broken my vows and promise. I have neglected the better things. My iniquities are multiplied and my sins are very great. I confess them, O Lord, with shame and sorrow, detestation and loathing and desire to be vile in my own eyes as I have rendered myself vile in Thine. I humbly beseech Thee to be merciful to me in the free pardon of my sins for the sake of Thy dear Son and only Savior Jesus Christ who came to call not the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Thou gavest Thy Son to die for me."

[George Washington; from a 24 page authentic handwritten manuscript book dated April 21-23, 1752

William J. Johnson George Washington, the Christian (New York: The Abingdon Press, New York & Cincinnati, 1919), pp. 24-35.]

In his first general order to his own troops, General Washington said he called on:

'Every officer and man…to live, and act, as becomes a Christian Soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.'

So yes, Virginia.....George Washington did believe in Jesus Christ.

Answer 3

YesNo, his contributions to the constitution are of a fairly non-religious nature so its more likely he was a deist.

Answer 4

No, he was an Episcopalian, which is a branch of Protestantism. Catholicism was not a major religion in the early years of the US, as protestants were founders of the country.

Answer 5

Yes. Washington belonged to the Episcopal Church and attended on occasion.

Answer 6

Yes.

He made reference to God and divine providence some 67 times in letters to congress during the revolutionary war.

Answer 7

i would like to say catholic