Congress proclaims a Day of Prayer … 250 years ago

Sometimes we are led to believe today that the Founding Fathers of America were men of the Enlightenment, meaning that, for the most part, they were not believers in Jesus.

But that’s not true that they were mostly skeptics. There were a few, but they were the exception – not the rule.

And besides, Enlightenment thinkers, like Montesquieu, Sir William Blackstone and John Locke – whose writings were important to America’s founders – were professing Christians, who often based their arguments on the Bible.