Americas : George Washington's Sacred Fire
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 Washington : Christian or Deist
As a conservative Christian I believe this book is very well written, however in the larger scheme of things it only matters to George Washington whether or not he was a Christian. I know conservative christians have a stake in showing some of our founding fathers to be Christian but when you get down to it George needs Jesus far more than Jesus needs George.
Biography of a hero, George Washington
Sacred Fire was very well researched and documented and also has a very readable quality. I had a hard time putting the book down. I thought I knew a lot about George Washington until I read this book and found out that some of what I have learned has been inaccurate.
 If Washington was religious I'm glad I'm not
I haven't read this book and don't intend to. I'd suggest, however, that everybody reads Simon Sharma's "Rough Crossings", a history of the (shameful) treatment of African Americans by both British and proto-American governments during and after the war of independence. One thing it makes clear is that Washington's principal reason for moving towards independence for America was that the British were about to abolish slavery, and as a Virginia plantation owner...
 Don't order in paperback
The contents of the book are wonderful and so informative and inspiring. However, I ordered the paperback version of this book for Father's Day along with Overton Window (in hardcover). The first time my husband started reading Sacred Fire, the pages started coming lose and falling out. The book was never handled roughly, but for whatever reason, the pages kept coming out so he eventually set it aside because it was too difficult putting pages back in place, etc. We do want to read this great book, and are hoping to get a hardback version from Amazon. We are very disappointed in the quality of this paperback.
Great book overall but.
But still as well developed and proofed ..its still irrelevant as to washingtons faith.
Washington himself often stated what he believed and also much of Jeffersons writings also state what it its...and it wasnt christianity, but neither was it deist.
Unlike Jefferson who was proven deist, Washington was a bheliever in a higher power, but it wasnt the christian view.
Note that a belief in a higher power is not soley christian btw.
I am agnostic myself, and believe in a nonbiblical possiblity of a god similar to christian but reject the bible as mostly superstition and partly inaccurate as does Jefferson.
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