Elias Boudinot: Building America on Christ

By Dr. Stephen Flick - Posted at Christian Heritage Fellowship:

While it is not true that Elias Boudinot, of New Jersey, started the Thanksgiving tradition in America, it is true that he did initiate the practice of presidential proclamations that traditionally accompany the American Thanksgiving season and which provides “an opportunity to all the citizens of the United States of joining, with one voice, in returning to Almighty God their sincere thanks for the many blessings he … [has] poured down upon them.” In addition, Elias Boudinot was one of the presidents of the Continental Congress, serving in that office from November 4, 1782 to November 3, 1783. He had served his country well in the years of war in which America made a bid for its independence, and as the war came to an end, it was Elias Boudinot who––as president of Congress––was called upon to sign the Paris Peace Treaty that brought the American War of Independence to a formal conclusion.

It is not true that America’s Founding Fathers were deists or secular[1] in their religious sentiments. Since the 1940s, liberal and “aAmerican”[2] or un-American judges have sought to establish the legal foundation of America upon a footing that is vastly different than the Christian moral foundation of America’s Founding Fathers. This new legal foundation of aAmericans is new and alien to the original intent of America’s Christian origin, which originated with the earliest English settlements of Jamestown and Plymouth and continued through the establishment of America as an independent nation by the Founding Fathers.

While it may be said that not all of the Founding Fathers who established America as an independent nation were Christian in the fullest biblical sense of the term, it may not be said that any of them were not Christian in their morals, sentiments, or sympathies––with exception to the latter religious and intellectual changes that characterized Thomas Paine.[3] In fact, Elias Boudinot represents the Christian sentiments of the overwhelming majority of America’s Founding Fathers and aggressively sought to refute the irreligious and secular sentiments that Thomas Paine came to acquire during his stay in France. The Christian life of Elias Boudinot is representative of the vast majority of America’s Founding Fathers that composes a vast mosaic of American heritage that Christians must not allow secularists and the irreligious to take from them!

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