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It’s surprising that the US has never had a non-Christian president, and only two of them (JFK and Joe Biden) have been Catholic while the rest have been Protestant.
Now that I know you watch Mr. Beast I can now watch your videos knowing you know your shit. No offense or anything, just some history channels just straight Wikipedia their stuff.
@@DrDipsh1t the thing that married his presidency was the helicopter crash while trying to rescue Americans from Iran as it fell. It was actually due to inadequate Intel but he took the hit
One of my favorite stories about Coolidge: one day he came home to the White House from church and his wife asked: “So, Cal, what did the pastor speak about today?” The President said: “Sin.” After a minute, she asked further: “So? What did he have to say?” He said nothing but: “He was against it.”
@Fychf depends on what you want to be saved from. If you believe in the sun of Adam, maybe that might work. If you’re up against an army of Egyptians maybe you just need a good stiff East wind. If you’re up against some lions in the upper Galilee, you could do with a good spear. If you’re in front of the Sanhedrin, some knowledge of Hebrew and literature could go a long way.
@@HotrodHud I don't like oatmeal, EXCEPT if it's Quaker Oats Oatrmeal. I LOVE me some Quaker Oat Oatmeal. Put a little brown sugar or honey on it.....YUUUUUUUUUM!!
Carter always seemed to me to be the most genuine in his religious beliefs (at least in the modern era). After the presidency hes the only one I can think of who actually devoted their life to service.
@@connormclernon26 I think he was adequately “equipped”, it’s just that he was basically doomed from the start, the situation in Iran pretty much screwed him out of a second term in the end.
Growing up super evangelical, it was taught that the founding fathers were not only hardcore Christians, but hardcore evangelicals who wanted Christianity to be the law of the land. Imagine my shock when I studied US history and Christian history and was like, "Wait, what do you mean the founders didn't believe in the rapture?" Kinda messed up that their words are misconstrued to try and tie religion and government together when that's clearly not what they wanted. Also, as an Episcopalian now, it was a surprise to see many of the first presidents were the same (though I'm sure the denomination has changed alot over the centuries).
Hey! I don't know if you are young, but did you know that the concept of the "Rapture" only begin around the 19th century? Yeah it is pretty recent, i don't know if the evangelicals hold this belief in America, but yeah, it is pretty weird.
To answer this, we need to go back to the beginning of the colonies. We all know that some of the early Americans fled England to escape religious persecution. This is true enough, but England did have an officially endorsed religion: Anglicanism, or the Church of England. Most estimates say at least 80% of England at least pretended to be Anglican and Anglicans quickly became a large presence in colonial society. The English Civil War broke out in the 1640s and '50s. This had two effects. First, many Anglican gentlemen and nobles fled to the colonies, especially the slaveholding colonies where they could buy slaves and estates. These estates, along with the relative power of the Anglican Church there, allowed them to live as they had despite a Puritan England. Secondly, after Puritanism fell in the Restoration, most of the colonies passed acts for religious toleration. However, nowhere had universal religious toleration until Pennsylvania was formed. There was only one group that was tolerated everywhere: Anglicans. Catholics were allowed in Maryland but not in Massachusetts, for example. Likewise, most royal officials would be Anglican and the English government, from time to time, supported Anglicanism in the colonies. This was sometimes resisted, most notably under the reign of King James II (who was a Catholic and unpopular and, fun fact, the namesake of New York). Nevertheless, on the eve of the Revolution Anglicanism was a robust force in the colonies. It was the richest church, probably the most populous, and had the most state support, both from several local state governments in the south and from England. But the Anglican Church in the US was loosely under the Bishop of London and held as one of its tenets that the King was the head of the church. Naturally enough, the Church was overwhelmingly loyalist. Only about 27% of the church structure were patriots, though this was much higher in some parts of the South. The Continental Congress criminalized praying for the King or Parliament in 1776 which resulted in almost every northern Anglican church shutting its door. After the Revolution, the Church was disestablished, much of its land seized, subject to fines, and individual clergy were investigated. Between 70% and 97% of Anglican clergy were expelled or fled, depending on the colony. By some reports, there were only two Anglican priests in the whole of New England after the Revolution. Those who remained radically reformed the church to have more democratic structures and a more American structure. They revised the Book of Common Prayer and attempted to strengthen what churches remained. But their congregation's numbers were devastated by the Revolution, as was their influence. By 1790, no state officially supported Episcopalianism or Anglicanism anymore. But it remained the religion of the elite, especially the Southern elite. The Church had been relatively more patriot in the South, it had definitely been more integrated into local society, and the South was a more elite dominated society. There was also less tradition of religious dissent and a longer tradition of conformism. Likewise, the First Great Awakening had been more a Northern than Southern phenomena, especially in the cities and coasts. Where it did find hold in the South, it was often in more marginal populations, like rural whites (such as those in Appalachia) or slave communities. The same was true of the Second and Third Great Awakenings, though these were more present in the south. Notably, these awakenings often stressed social equality and opposition to slavery, which made them unappealing to slaveholding elites. So while it declined in general, it remained strong in the South, especially along the coasts and in major slaveholding regions. (It was also still an elite religion in the North, but Northern elites were less dominant overall and were mostly not slaveholders.)
I figure in the case of the Founders who became president, its because they had been British and that was the official church. As for the later presidents, that is a good question.
==TIMESTAMPS== George Washington: 2:17 John Adams: 2:39 Thomas Jefferson: 3:05 James Madison: 4:09 James Monroe: 4:28 John Quincy Adams: 4:45 Andrew Jackson: 5:16 Martin Van Buren: 5:33 William Henry Harrison: 5:46 John Tyler: 6:02 James Polk: 6:22 Zachary Taylor: 7:11 Millard Fillmore: 7:29 William Seward: 8:01 Franklin Pierce: 8:13 James Buchanan: 8:51 Abraham Lincoln: 9:04 Andrew Johnson: 10:36 Ulysses Grant: 11:18 Rutherford Hayes: 11:50 James Garfield: 12:29 Chester Arthur: 13:11 Grover Cleveland: 15:01 Benjamin Harrison: 15:30 William McKinley: 15:54 Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt: 16:29 William Howard Taft: 16:50 Woodrow Wilson: 17:46 Warren Harding: 18:15 Calvin Coolidge: 18:52 Herbert Hoover: 19:06 Franklin Roosevelt (FDR): 19:47 Harry Truman: 20:08 Dwight Eisenhower: 21:01 John F. Kennedy (JFK): 21:49 Lyndon Johnson: 22:01 Richard “It’s Just The Storm, Dick” Nixon: 22:19 Gerald Ford: 22:46 Jimmy Carter: 23:03 Ronald Reagan: 23:28 George H.W. Bush: 23:54 Bill “Relation-less” Clinton: 24:10 George W. Bush: 24:26 Barrack Obama: 25:19 Donald Trump: 25:58 Joe Biden: 26:23 Conclusion: 26:35
When Lincoln's son died he left religion entirely for a bit but a preacher told him his son did not go to hell for not being baptized because God is merciful to the innocent. That put him to ease with his relationship with religion.
I grew up in the Episcopal Church and Gerald and Betty Ford attended the same church that I did in California. They always sat right behind us. They were really nice unassuming people. When President Ford died, his first funeral service was held at our church. My stepdad worked there and worked during it so I heard about all of it. It was definitely a lot of crazy logistics for a medium sized church but everyone was incredibly honored to be able to make it happen.
@You are correct But he's just stating that Lincoln was quoting the Bible when he said that he doesn't have to have a point it's just a little fun fact
Really? How do we know for sure that he was quoting him and didn't just actually say something close by accident? I mean, president Lincoln said "A house divided against itself cannot stand". It's not really a quote because Jesus said it differently. It's more of a familiar concept to what Jesus said.
i once went to Jimmy Carter’s sunday service and even though my family is atheist (i’m not), we all really enjoyed it and it was mostly about loving each other and forgiveness. him and his wife were also really sweet and it was a really interesting and fun experience
Loving each other and forgiveness is mostly what Jesus and the New Testament were all about. Many so called Christians seem to follow the God of the Old Testament instead- with the anger, fear and punishment. Which sort of negates the whole point of Jesus and the story of his crucifixion. Contrast Carter (whose worse known sin was that he found women attractive even when they were not his wife) to Trump who (while claiming that no one on Earth is a bigger Christian than he) said he has never asked God's forgiveness because he doesn't believe he's ever done anything the slightest bit wrong in his lifetime. That would make Trump the only human in history to have been better than Jesus.
Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn is what most Christians should be like. Kind, loving and willing to help others. I groan when I see people like MTG and Lauren Boebert talking about love and kindness when they do nothing but spew hatred towards others, particularly towards Jews and Muslims.
This is so interesting. I never realized how many 18th and 19th century presidents were so liberal in terms of religious beliefs. I always assumed they were all devout followers because they were old. Now I feel like I grew up more religiously conservative then they did
You're right. I'm old and grew up as a Baptist. The Baptist church was more progressive and left-leaning 50+ years ago. Today's Baptists act like Nazis. That's why Jimmy Carter left the church and became a Methodist. BTW, I left the Baptist church too more than 30 years ago. They've lost 1 million members over the past 10 years because the conservatives who control the church today are insufferable.
Well, America experienced a major religious shift during the 1950s, mostly as a result of a reaction to communism, but also due to certain demographic trends relating to the rise of suburbs.
The wounds were still fresh in people's minds. Many people came here to seek religious freedom and escaping theocracies and national religions. Also what the other poster said, the fight against the "Godless commies" which put forth that whole "in God we trust" and "under God" in the pledge as a unification tactic. It's been downhill ever since. I'm curious to see what would happen if we had a modern day atheist/agnostic president.
As an European, it is really weird to see how many different versions of Christianity the US has. I can only think of two versions of protestantism here and those are Lutheran and Anglican.
@Mr Mole you can not just willy nilly call the soul, the life blood of people "waste of time." If you are an atheist then its fine, but keep your beleifs to yourself preferably unless you are going to explain, or unless you are asked. I dont mean any offense whatsoever.
That’s because most European countries have had official (state sanctioned) churches for centuries. Minority sects often faced persecution until the modern era. And where did folks who faced religious persecution flee to? America - a nation of immigrants with a wide diversity of religious faiths.
Jimmy Carter is one of the most devoted Christian Presidents that I'm aware of. He valued human life to the point he sacrificed his own presidency to preserve it, and he still does charity work to build homes for the needy, even to this day.
@@clainmings7052 No he wasn't, he was one of the best because he acted like a real human being would, with a heart. He didn't act like a politician. He acted like a human being.
One thing you didn’t mention about Eisenhower, he was raised a Jehovah’s Witness, but he never really accepted their faith or was baptized in it. But his parents were deeply religious, and in the days when the JW’s were simply known as “Bible Students,” they conducted religious services at their home in Kansas, before any church (called ‘Kingdom Hall’) was established there. His parents died with that faith. His mother lived to see him become president.
As someone who grew up in that strange faith (I quietly left), that must've been a huge deal given they adamently oppose political participation. Imagine her shock.
@EndDimsthis is a sentiment i’ve seen actually. my highschool had (i graduated but they’re still a lot of the students there) a lot of JWs and my friend told me that before she fully committed to the faith that they encouraged her to research all other faith options and gave her a lot of resources to do so before she made her choice. i do agree with a few of their beliefs in the sense of holidays and all that because i’ve always hated thanksgiving and a lot of it is just capitalism, but anyways yeah not that i thought they were all crazy, but before i switched to that highschool i had never actually known a JW and they’re all super chill!! i was also extremely respectful of their beliefs and so that definitely helped, since i am christian, but obviously not a JW 😹😹
@@applesandgrapesfordinner4626 As a pimo, early bible students were very different from modern JWs. Rutherford's sect became dominant but other bible students groups still exist and don't have many of the practices which characterize JWs as a cult, like mandated preaching, shunning, or refusal of blood transfusion. I whould recommend reading "Rutherford's coup" to understand how a lot of modern doctrines started. Right now I'm still a member technically but my beliefs are closer to a non-denominational Arian.
That's always been the stereotype. That women were the ones who kept their husbands religious. That's what my parents tried to do with me. Trying to set me up with a religious girl in our church to convert me.
Before many people in Europe and the US had personal acquaintance with Muslims, they used this term, but dropped it once they realized it was offensive to Muslims since Muslims don't worship Mohammed and don't use this term to refer to themselves.
@@olekcholewa8171 Worship and obedience are two different things that are not necessarily the same thing. The authority of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) is derived from God. Therefore, in obeying the Prophet, we are fulfilling God’s commandment.
@@nevergivingup3434 He's the biggest chad in the world. Did you not see his incredible masculine profile picture. The girls he teaches in World History AP are probably creaming their jeans.
I legit thought It would just be Protestant, Protestant, Protestant with the 2 Catholics but then I realised it would be internal denominations Edit: Wow this comments replies exploded
@@lucaspajak1254 To be fair I do recall Biden having said that while he would not opt for abortion in his own life, he didn't wish to use his power to take away other's right to
Europeans seeing the title: oh hey, imma learn about the religious diversity of American presidents! Americans: Protestant and that one time we had a Catholic but that didn’t last long…
@hr zr “weird sects” could be read as a little bit condescending, though I have no reason to believe you meant it that way. Just like in Europe, there is a lot of diversity within American Protestantism, and the American Protestant denominations are deeply interwoven in history with European ones. The Episcopals talked about in this video are basically the Church of England, but post-revolutionary war. The Presbyterians are calvinists that descend from the Church of Scotland. Methodists are intricately linked with the Methodists of Britain. Baptists, Pentecostals, and many others are largely from the first and second great awakenings, movements in the US that reinvigorated religious fervor with new branches of Protestantism that largely appealed to lower classes.
There's something so funny about seeing someone who went in-depth on the nuances and complexity of religion and government utter the words "jarjarbinks420" at the end
It's now well known, but Eisenhower's parents belonged to a group called the International Bible Students, which would later be known as the Watchtower Society. Like many other of of our great generals, his initial attraction for West Point was that it offered a free education.
@@munimathbypeterfelton6251 Actually, during the latter half of his presidency, FDR was often in his wheelchair, but the press were not allowed to photograph him unless he was standing up, and even in those cases, Elinore was often helping him stand.
@@iammrbeat Fun fact: I got made fun of in 9th grade for looking like Franklin Pierce (one of America’s worst presidents). In 10th grade, I learned that he is widely regarded as the hottest president in history. I had the last laugh.
McKinley was a nice man. Genuine respect for all people. My great grandma knew him. She was a servant in a home he would visit. He stood out as a man who treated servants with just as much respect as anyone else.
He was also the only president that served as an enlisted man in the military. He joined during the Civil War at 18 years old as a Private, and was at the Battle of Antietam. By the end of the war he had climbed the ranks to Major.
@@specialknees6798 I just looked up his weight and he cracked 300 at 6' tall. That's like football player size 😂crazy. The way they talk about Taft you'd think he was like 500lbs. He was just a massive man it seems.
Well, Being an Indian Hindu, i am just noting down the names of different sects of christianity, I really didn’t knew this much is been existing in the world. Great video mr. beat
The 4 major divisions are Roman Catholic, Protestant, and (rarely mentioned as it's only 1% of the US population, though more common elsewhere) Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox. Protestant subdivides into many smaller pieces, over 30,000 denominations. Some pieces, like Unitarian, many others in Christianity wouldn't even consider Christian due to denying the divinity of Christ.
Interesting to see that some of the most religious people to become president were the most vocal on the separation of Church and State. It was likely just that they were being fielded questions about it more often due to their religious nature.
For non religious people the reasoning was to keep religion out of politics but for my many religious friends & family they fear the government would interfere with there rights so they don't want the government interference.
The politics, with its antics and bravado often perverts religion. Religious nuts can make trash political decisions as well, but I think the former is more common and worse and happening to 99 percent if churches today.
As a religious person myself, I'm fortunate that my government is secular but does lean to my religion. However, if my government wasn't secular and I happened to be a different religion, I would be really afraid
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This was fascinating! I grew up Presbyterian. I still believe in God and all that but I got disenchanted with my church over the years. Honestly, knowing that Reagan, Bush, and Trump all have ties to my old church explains a ton. My church was very politically conservative and it was alienating. I kinda relate to Obama, just dabbling in different Christian denominations. I can’t really find something that suits me but I hope I do.
There are two main Presbytarian branches. One is conservative, the other is not. Just like how there are two Baptist branches- one conservative, the other not.
Interesting fact about Ike: his parents became Jehovah's Witnesses but Ike himself didn't get baptized into the religion and he didn't like it at all. Hence only officially joining a church in '52.
Military personnel don't usually attend local churches but will attend the base chapel. The military has a Chaplain Corps from nearly every religious denomination including Judaism and Islam. The Chaplains are from various denominations but serve all where possible.
The cool ones 2:18 George Washington 9:10 Honest Abe 16:27 Teddy Roosevelt 19:46 FDR 21:00 Dwight Eisenhower 21:52 JFK 23:04 Jimmy Carter 23:28 Ronald Reagan 23:54 George H. W. Bush 25:19 Obama (I don't know his last name) 25:59 Donald Trump 26:23 Joe Biden
@@joeyjohnson7795 there were two Quaker presidents. Quakers, by definition, are supposed to be pacifist (why a lot of them identify as Conscientious Objectors if they are forced to serve in the army under conscription) . Ironically, the Quaker-raised Nixon was one of the more pro-war US Presidents in the country's history.
In America, we have half a million varieties of Protestantism. Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Seventh-Day Adventist, Jehovah's Witnesses, Latter-Day Saints (although the last three aren't considered Christian let alone Protestant by most Americans.)
@@josephsaab7208 They seem to call anyone who doesn't praise trump a communist these days even though most of them probably don't actually know about communism.
Fun fact: Israel has never had a prime minister who *was* religious. For the leader of a major party to appear to be religious (other than at major holidays, etc.) would actually be quite taboo, as religiously observant Jews are and have been a minority (13-20%) since independence.
@@iammrbeat Why “surprisingly”? Have you met Jews!? Other than a very devout minority - not a people known for religious fervor. That being said - Israeli Jews, even “secular” ones - are generally more traditional than their American Jewish counterparts, which may have something to do with the fact that half or more of Israeli Jews are Sephardim/Mizrahim whereas Americans are nearly all Ashkenazi
I watched this all the way through, despite being a European who couldn't tell an Episcopalian from a Presbyterian from a Baptist By halfway through I was hooked, I found myself shocked "He was a Baptist? I'd have had him down as an Episcopalian!"
The episcopal church has a presiding bishop, presbyterians have a ruling elder, Methodists have the ghost of John Wesley, Catholics have the Pope, baptists get baptized in a swimming pool kind of, and quakers are quakers
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Yeah I found that interesting as well. Also I heard that most people in the Episcopal church are wealthy. I was baptized Episcopalian but I consider myself agnostic today.
I really enjoyed this video! I have a few comments/concerns: -I think we can conclude from his speeches (including the one you quote, as well as the famous second inaugural address and others) that Lincoln believed in God, and had, at the least, a Christian understanding of God. (The often-cited “a house divided against itself” quote comes, as you probably know, from the Gospel of Mark.) -On the other hand, I’m surprised that Eisenhower had any strong religious belief; he famously said that America needed a strong moral source, and that he didn’t care what it was. (That’s Billy Graham at 21:10) -I would argue that there were a number of politicians who were never President, but whose religion-based activism had a greater effect on American political and social life than many presidents did. Among them are Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King Jr., and William Jennings Bryan.
@The Geek Squad Leader well I mean, the only way to test if someone is willing to die for it is for them to die for it, so there’s no real way to know.
We always say religion and the State should always be separate. But we never seriously separate them. A lot of people in this country in fact intentionally work very hard to provide the conditions for them to be getting closer and closer, and of course out of religious reasons. And the system gets corrupted and we have been moving closer to PlutoTheocracy.
I think that the separation of church and state is quite often misunderstood. It was made to not be like the Church of England to make a universal church. It’s to protect the church from the government. Not the opposite way
@@shady1234shady It also protects the government from religious policies in a circular manner in that by preventing the government from attacking religion, you imply that religious organizations cannot weaponize the government to gain demographic dominance.
Fantastic video. Thanks for putting it together. Interesting facts about the two Quaker presidents, Hoover and Nixon: Herbert Hoover’s wife, the former Miss Lou Henry, was an Episcopalian who decided to become a Quaker when she married Mr. Hoover. Their wedding was performed, however, by Fr. Ramon Mestres, a Roman Catholic priest acting solely in a civil capacity. According to our high school Spanish teacher, who was a Quaker, Richard Nixon was “read out of meeting” (excommunicated) when he joined the U.S. Navy during the Second World War.
As a practicing Episcopalian seeing so many Presidents keep it on the down low sounds about right. We’re nowhere near the most outgoing group of people religiously but very welcoming all the same.
The prevalence of Presbyterianism actually kinda surprised me. I’m also certain that a good handful were actually atheistic, agnostic, or apatheistic, and just did what they did religiously for purely social reasons.
the kernel of truth in the claim that he was a Muslim is that in Shariah Law he probably was: because his father was a Kenyan Muslim. His step-father was also an Indonesian Muslim. Went he went to school in Indonesia as a boy his religion was registered as Muslim. Having said that, I know he is not in fact Muslim
@@studogable Obama is a Christian like the queen is a devout Buddhist. Clue 1 : what true Christian thinks the "sound of the call to Muslim prayer is the most beautiful sound of all."
Because being religious is generally only going to be politically advantageous in America. Non religious voters, for the most part, don't mind voting for someone who is religious (assuming they aren't making decisions on behalf of their religion) whereas religious voters are much more inclined to not vote for someone because of their irreligion.
@@TakenWasTakenYT you're definitely taking some liberty with that take. The founders undeniably wanted there to be a separation of church and state. Many of them weren't even religious in the traditional sense, they were deists. It's not explicitly written in the Constitution but the establishment clause of the first amendment clearly states "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof". Later Thomas Jefferson in his 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptist Association said that when the American people adopted the establishment clause as a part of the Constitution they built a “wall of separation between the church and state.” In 1947 the Supreme Court ruled in Everson v. Board of Education that the establishment clause applied to state/local governments as well. Article VI, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution also states, "No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States." In the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli, John Adams wrote "the government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion". James Madison wrote in Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments that "The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate... This right is in its nature an unalienable right and is to not be influenced or influence the government in anyway" Thomas Jefferson in his 2nd augural address also said "In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the General Government and that it is to remain that way" You can also look at all these cases that reinforce the separation of church and state: McCollum v. Board of Education (1948), Torcaso v. Watkins (1961), Engel v. Vitale (1962), Abington School District v. Schempp (1963), Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971), Stone v. Graham (1980), Wallace v. Jaffree (1985), Edwards v. Aguillard (1987), Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe (2000), Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002).
Worth pointing out that the big concern for separation of church and state in the early years of America and elsewhere was less about protecting the state from the church, and more about protecting the church from the state, with people like Jefferson seeing politics as a corruptive influence on religion as much or more than the other way around. They were particularly thinking of what they saw in Europe as the churches essentially being arms of the government as much as anything else, and they generally favoured putting limits on the power of governments.
Yeah sadly us Christians of today are literally using office as a power grab, but I always thought Of separation of church and state as a way of protecting the church and the people. Especially when persecution happened in Europe for choosing a religion over another.
@@eos_2366 Ah no. Religion has been destroyed utterly and has little influence. America is majority non-religious now and most "Christians" are just liberal larpers. More than 50% of Catholics according to poles are just liberals who support abortion and sexual denigration. Those who do actually believe anything are so mocked, rejected, and villainized in society as to have no influence. The founders created this country specifically on Christianity and its teachings. They said it would collapse if absolutely anything else filled that gap. Seeing the state of things, I can confidently say they were right. All we've been seeing are massive powergrabs by leftists who hold all the high positions of power.
@@eos_2366 Makes sense considering that many of the families living in the colonies were there because of MASSIVE persecution, and since the founding fathers weren't fans of the idea of the government purging the citizens, they separated the church and the state so that people wouldn't die
@@elvispresley2284 Wow. You have no idea about US History nor religion. The founders loved the church as it was more powerful than the government, culturally. The idea was to protect the church from the state. None of this actually exists in the constitution anyway, it was a letter.
Can we just appreciate that Mr. Beat is the, "President history guy of TH-cam" Oh wait I created nickname for Mr. Beat, but let's all appreciate the research he puts in his videos
The Lincolns did frequent both a Presbyterian while in Springfield, IL and his language was very calvinistic. He also used Bunyan's Pilgrim's progress in a lot of metaphors. I would call him an cautious agnostic, but very sympathetic to puritanical ideals.
I’m surprised they didn’t mention the theory that Lincoln was a closet Mormon, having met and been friendly with Joseph Smith and also studying the Book of Mormon while president. I would highly recommend the book “The Lincoln Hypothesis” by Tim Ballard, the leader of Operation Underground Railroad.
@@coweatsman That’s right, his quickly growing political prospects was one of the reasons for his assassination, as Nauvoo (the city he was mayor of) was the largest city in Illinois and its militia rivaled the US military. He ran on an abolitionist platform and suggested legislation reminiscent of the 14th amendment, inspired by a meeting with president Martin Van Buren where he said he couldn’t help them in their fight against persecution because the 2nd amendment was unincorporated. The funniest thing about it all was that Joseph Smith also prophesied the Civil War decades in advance.
@@KnuttyEntertainment You can read the bible, or whatever spinoff religions give you and still not be a part of that religion. Lincoln quite literally read every book he could get his hands on, so he read a lot of christian books from every corner of the US to get a perspective and gain knowledge from a common cause.
@@ussinussinongawd516The founding fathers were actually a little divided on slavery. They actually addressed it, and eventually said it was a necessary evil. They ultimately said it was England's fault they had slaves... soo... lol
Wasn’t Coolidge once asked what did the minister preach on and reply sin. When push on what did the minister say about it, Coolidge then reportedly said he’s against it. So glad I found these videos. Love this kind of stuff
I think George didn’t talk about his religion, as he was trying to set a standard. I think he was religious, but didn’t want religion to be a major blow back for the USA
@@heyyo6050 Fair, but he also leaned federalist but never made it a part of his public life except when he had to make policies and he wasn’t a radical federalist like Maddison
Most likely, he was a deist. In addition to not talking about his religion, he would frequently leave the church before the sacraments, and didn't really have much care for religious teachings.
@@boygenius538_8 wouldn't that imply that religion is above the constitution in that case you would be showing loyalty and importance to religious ideology over the constitution
@@robbiemcgowan3477 true but what if the president isn't christian would they change it from the bible to the Torah or Quaran or any other holy book I'm legit confused on the procedure
I have an idea, you should do All The Presidents' Parents, like how you did 'All The Presidents' Kids'. That video did pretty well and I think it would get you a lot more subscribers and viewers.
I did a comprehensive report on Dwight David Eisenhower when I was in junior high school in the mid '90s and he was actually raised as one of Jehovah's Witnesses by his mother, a fact that I didn't know until then.
In fact Ike's mom wasn't too enthusiastic about his choice of career since they oppose joining the military or getting involved in politics. Not even voting let alone running for office.
@@fordprefect5967 in the right context any religion will look like a cult. They've gone through several reforms over the decades but they are for the most part evangelicals with a side of eschatology. Doctrine inside the organization (they will never refer to themselves as a church) prioritizes ministry and self-actualization in regards to worship. Their interpretation of the Bible is as an absolute though an individual's views on scripture and the extent to which it must be followed to the letter varies considerably. One of the most bizarre and hurtful practices within the group though is disfellowshipping. If a member of a congregation is caught out in some sort of wrongdoing be it of a secular or a religious nature they'll get several sessions with congregation elders and depending on whether they are repentant or not the matter will be either dropped, they will be announced as reproved, or they are announced as disfellowshipped. In short they are totally shunned both in and out of service, disallowed from commenting during Q&A sessions, denied ministry service of all description, and they won't even TALK to you until you show your repentance. Not really the best way to get the lost lambs back on the path.
Quaker culture is really interesting. I was raised Lutheran by my grandparents, and later atheist by my mom but moved out next to a historic Quaker village for a year and my fiancé and i always enjoyed going there and just learning the history from wherever was open
I grew up Quaker before gravitating towards the Orthodox church. Modern Quaker culture is still very different from what I'd say mainstream Protestant culture is like in a lot of ways in terms of the socioeconomic habits that are followed and the level of mystical, spiritual practices that are genuinely believed in. I've sometimes felt like I've had more in common in terms of how my family system works with the kids of immigrants from Europe than other Americans. Old Quaker families are very clanish, try to force their kids to be academically oriented at all costs, vehemently pacifist, emphasize diligence, and are way less likely to jive with 'suburban' culture. The system in which I was raised was definitely not an average one, but I'm still glad I grew up in a Quaker household, I feel like it has inoculated me against materialism and consumerism pretty effectively.
Please remember that there are three types of Quakers (Friends): Guernyite, Wilberite and Hicksite. (Please pardon any misspellings.) Although those names are rarely used today, the Guernyites are now referred to as "Evangelical Friends" and have actual churches, ministers, et cetera. The Hicksites are now referred to as "Liberal/Progressive Quakers/Friends and practice traditional Quaker 'rituals', such as silent meeting, et cetera, yet are very liberal theologically, many considering themselves "Post-Christian" or even "Non-Christian". They are very socially active, in true Quaker tradition. The Wilberites are few in number and are the "Orthodox", practicing silent meeting and all other traditional Quaker/Friend practices and 'rituals', sometimes including the wearing of 'plain' clothing and even using some archaic words such as "thee" and "thou" in their speech, from what I understand.
@@lindadechiazza2924 Even in the most Non-Christian remote places of Mindanao, theres are fair enough share of minority Christians, especially Christian Catholics. And anyways the entire population of Mindanao is pretty Christian-Catholic majority
I'm not even american, but I really found this video interesting! My POV is that being a religious president is not so important, but respecting every religion and religious people in the country is something extremely important. If a president is religious then bringing his best religious values can make a good difference for the people in general.
I would say it does matter, and I speak from experience. I will only vote for a president that has policies that i agree with. No Athiest, jehovah's witness, catholic, or Methodist, will hold to all of the policies that I hold to, so i would not vote for them. However there is an exception. A lot of politicians pretend to be religious for the benefit of their viewers. So I can put up with voting for someone who is one of the religions I mentioned, if they do hold to my policies. It's just that I dont see them as following the religion they say they are.
You need to respect peoples right to believe what ever they wish no matter how insane it seems to you. You do not need to respect the beliefs. No one would suggest we have to be respectful about ISIS, to make an extreme example. Same is true for anything faith based. You do not need to respect Catholicism but you do need to respect peoples right to be Catholics.
@@hanstun1 except for as you say, people like ISIS we do not have to respect their "right" to be in ISIS because they do not have one, the very idea behind ISIS is such that no one should be even allowed to join them.
@@hanstun1 That is a flawed point. ISIS is not a religion. It is a terrorist group like the IRA. It's not even Islamic. People should respect people's values sure. What I don't understand is your point. It's non-sequitur and contradictory. Here you say "You need to respect people's right to believe whatever they wish no matter how insane it seems to you. " and then you say " No one would suggest we have to be respectful about ISIS". Mate where did you get your education.
Which President's religious beliefs surprised you the most?
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It’s surprising that the US has never had a non-Christian president, and only two of them (JFK and Joe Biden) have been Catholic while the rest have been Protestant.
@@katalbinson6562 yah its pretty weird that we havent had a jewish, muslim, hindu, or atheist president yet
@@raghav3558 we had Atheist like Obama but he tried to fake being Christian
I'm surprised that there's never been a Lutheran US president
@@hadi8699 oh lord not this again...
Anyone else still shocked that Carter is just, still alive. And building houses. 50 years on from when he was even president
It really is amazing.
Carter’s built different.
Now that I know you watch Mr. Beast I can now watch your videos knowing you know your shit. No offense or anything, just some history channels just straight Wikipedia their stuff.
I will build house until 2100.
I read this like you would in your videos lol
Spanish kings be like:
Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic
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Lol
As it should be
@@hippo9903 Catholics aren’t Christians
@@divinepaths5750 Why do you think that?
@@divinepaths5750 They believe in Christ don't they
Carter is immortal. He’s clearly immortal.
He outlived THE QUEEN.
no
The queen respawned and is hiding her identity
He's taken some falls too lately and still recovered. Carter wasn't a remarkable president, but I feel he'd be a guy I'd admire as a person.
@@DrDipsh1t the thing that married his presidency was the helicopter crash while trying to rescue Americans from Iran as it fell. It was actually due to inadequate Intel but he took the hit
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One of my favorite stories about Coolidge: one day he came home to the White House from church and his wife asked: “So, Cal, what did the pastor speak about today?” The President said: “Sin.” After a minute, she asked further: “So? What did he have to say?” He said nothing but: “He was against it.”
Silent Cal living up to his nickname
"sinning bad"
this conversation feels really irish for some reason
Well? Was his wife utterly shocked?
@Fychf depends on what you want to be saved from. If you believe in the sun of Adam, maybe that might work. If you’re up against an army of Egyptians maybe you just need a good stiff East wind. If you’re up against some lions in the upper Galilee, you could do with a good spear. If you’re in front of the Sanhedrin, some knowledge of Hebrew and literature could go a long way.
Love me some Quakers. Not one myself. But their oatmeal is pretty great.
Amen to the quaker oats
@@HotrodHud I don't like oatmeal, EXCEPT if it's Quaker Oats Oatrmeal. I LOVE me some Quaker Oat Oatmeal. Put a little brown sugar or honey on it.....YUUUUUUUUUM!!
@@williamhild1793 amen
I think one of my great-grandmothers was a Quaker
Pretty healthy too
Carter always seemed to me to be the most genuine in his religious beliefs (at least in the modern era). After the presidency hes the only one I can think of who actually devoted their life to service.
Carter always seemed to be a good guy. Unfortunately, he just wasn’t equipped to be President
#JustMonika
@@connormclernon26 I think he was adequately “equipped”, it’s just that he was basically doomed from the start, the situation in Iran pretty much screwed him out of a second term in the end.
Hm
Carter is a fighter 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Fun fun. Let’s see which flavor of Christian they are.
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tecnically one of them was a muslim
@@cloudymc5306 which one
Growing up super evangelical, it was taught that the founding fathers were not only hardcore Christians, but hardcore evangelicals who wanted Christianity to be the law of the land. Imagine my shock when I studied US history and Christian history and was like, "Wait, what do you mean the founders didn't believe in the rapture?" Kinda messed up that their words are misconstrued to try and tie religion and government together when that's clearly not what they wanted.
Also, as an Episcopalian now, it was a surprise to see many of the first presidents were the same (though I'm sure the denomination has changed alot over the centuries).
Hey! I don't know if you are young, but did you know that the concept of the "Rapture" only begin around the 19th century? Yeah it is pretty recent, i don't know if the evangelicals hold this belief in America, but yeah, it is pretty weird.
@@duskydancing6409 I mean the rapture was made up in the 1700-1800s and wasn't in the early Church
Why was the relatively small Episcopalian church so popular among presidents? Did it used to be way more popular than it is now?
That's a darn good question. I have no idea.
Maybe because members of that church are wealthier. Other than that, I’m not sure 🤷♂️
I assume because it’s the quintessential WASPy denomination (a background which most presidents have)
To answer this, we need to go back to the beginning of the colonies. We all know that some of the early Americans fled England to escape religious persecution. This is true enough, but England did have an officially endorsed religion: Anglicanism, or the Church of England. Most estimates say at least 80% of England at least pretended to be Anglican and Anglicans quickly became a large presence in colonial society.
The English Civil War broke out in the 1640s and '50s. This had two effects. First, many Anglican gentlemen and nobles fled to the colonies, especially the slaveholding colonies where they could buy slaves and estates. These estates, along with the relative power of the Anglican Church there, allowed them to live as they had despite a Puritan England.
Secondly, after Puritanism fell in the Restoration, most of the colonies passed acts for religious toleration. However, nowhere had universal religious toleration until Pennsylvania was formed. There was only one group that was tolerated everywhere: Anglicans. Catholics were allowed in Maryland but not in Massachusetts, for example. Likewise, most royal officials would be Anglican and the English government, from time to time, supported Anglicanism in the colonies. This was sometimes resisted, most notably under the reign of King James II (who was a Catholic and unpopular and, fun fact, the namesake of New York).
Nevertheless, on the eve of the Revolution Anglicanism was a robust force in the colonies. It was the richest church, probably the most populous, and had the most state support, both from several local state governments in the south and from England.
But the Anglican Church in the US was loosely under the Bishop of London and held as one of its tenets that the King was the head of the church. Naturally enough, the Church was overwhelmingly loyalist. Only about 27% of the church structure were patriots, though this was much higher in some parts of the South. The Continental Congress criminalized praying for the King or Parliament in 1776 which resulted in almost every northern Anglican church shutting its door. After the Revolution, the Church was disestablished, much of its land seized, subject to fines, and individual clergy were investigated. Between 70% and 97% of Anglican clergy were expelled or fled, depending on the colony. By some reports, there were only two Anglican priests in the whole of New England after the Revolution.
Those who remained radically reformed the church to have more democratic structures and a more American structure. They revised the Book of Common Prayer and attempted to strengthen what churches remained. But their congregation's numbers were devastated by the Revolution, as was their influence. By 1790, no state officially supported Episcopalianism or Anglicanism anymore.
But it remained the religion of the elite, especially the Southern elite. The Church had been relatively more patriot in the South, it had definitely been more integrated into local society, and the South was a more elite dominated society. There was also less tradition of religious dissent and a longer tradition of conformism. Likewise, the First Great Awakening had been more a Northern than Southern phenomena, especially in the cities and coasts. Where it did find hold in the South, it was often in more marginal populations, like rural whites (such as those in Appalachia) or slave communities. The same was true of the Second and Third Great Awakenings, though these were more present in the south. Notably, these awakenings often stressed social equality and opposition to slavery, which made them unappealing to slaveholding elites. So while it declined in general, it remained strong in the South, especially along the coasts and in major slaveholding regions. (It was also still an elite religion in the North, but Northern elites were less dominant overall and were mostly not slaveholders.)
I figure in the case of the Founders who became president, its because they had been British and that was the official church. As for the later presidents, that is a good question.
==TIMESTAMPS==
George Washington: 2:17
John Adams: 2:39
Thomas Jefferson: 3:05
James Madison: 4:09
James Monroe: 4:28
John Quincy Adams: 4:45
Andrew Jackson: 5:16
Martin Van Buren: 5:33
William Henry Harrison: 5:46
John Tyler: 6:02
James Polk: 6:22
Zachary Taylor: 7:11
Millard Fillmore: 7:29
William Seward: 8:01
Franklin Pierce: 8:13
James Buchanan: 8:51
Abraham Lincoln: 9:04
Andrew Johnson: 10:36
Ulysses Grant: 11:18
Rutherford Hayes: 11:50
James Garfield: 12:29
Chester Arthur: 13:11
Grover Cleveland: 15:01
Benjamin Harrison: 15:30
William McKinley: 15:54
Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt: 16:29
William Howard Taft: 16:50
Woodrow Wilson: 17:46
Warren Harding: 18:15
Calvin Coolidge: 18:52
Herbert Hoover: 19:06
Franklin Roosevelt (FDR): 19:47
Harry Truman: 20:08
Dwight Eisenhower: 21:01
John F. Kennedy (JFK): 21:49
Lyndon Johnson: 22:01
Richard “It’s Just The Storm, Dick” Nixon: 22:19
Gerald Ford: 22:46
Jimmy Carter: 23:03
Ronald Reagan: 23:28
George H.W. Bush: 23:54
Bill “Relation-less” Clinton: 24:10
George W. Bush: 24:26
Barrack Obama: 25:19
Donald Trump: 25:58
Joe Biden: 26:23
Conclusion: 26:35
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When Lincoln's son died he left religion entirely for a bit but a preacher told him his son did not go to hell for not being baptized because God is merciful to the innocent. That put him to ease with his relationship with religion.
That's the terrible problem, people have relation with religion, but not with God
@@Lucas-kg9rt God is actually a lot more loving and cooler than most religious organizations.
Lincoln wasn't religious until the day he gave the Gettysburg address, according to his own words.
@@ladykoiwolfe other than being a self centered narcissist.
@@paddyj7690 that's how the religion portrays him. The pr sucks.
I grew up in the Episcopal Church and Gerald and Betty Ford attended the same church that I did in California. They always sat right behind us. They were really nice unassuming people. When President Ford died, his first funeral service was held at our church. My stepdad worked there and worked during it so I heard about all of it. It was definitely a lot of crazy logistics for a medium sized church but everyone was incredibly honored to be able to make it happen.
Actually when Lincoln made his speach of "A house divided on itself cannot stand", he was actually quoting Jesus
That is true
@You are correct But he's just stating that Lincoln was quoting the Bible when he said that he doesn't have to have a point it's just a little fun fact
Really? How do we know for sure that he was quoting him and didn't just actually say something close by accident? I mean, president Lincoln said "A house divided against itself cannot stand". It's not really a quote because Jesus said it differently. It's more of a familiar concept to what Jesus said.
@@mrgroovy5113 basically the same thing
@@mastershitclub4726 No... it's not.
i once went to Jimmy Carter’s sunday service and even though my family is atheist (i’m not), we all really enjoyed it and it was mostly about loving each other and forgiveness. him and his wife were also really sweet and it was a really interesting and fun experience
I had a similar experience. President Carter and his wife are the only good/real Christians I've ever met.
@Bobrzyca Pola so edgy
Loving each other and forgiveness is mostly what Jesus and the New Testament were all about. Many so called Christians seem to follow the God of the Old Testament instead- with the anger, fear and punishment. Which sort of negates the whole point of Jesus and the story of his crucifixion. Contrast Carter (whose worse known sin was that he found women attractive even when they were not his wife) to Trump who (while claiming that no one on Earth is a bigger Christian than he) said he has never asked God's forgiveness because he doesn't believe he's ever done anything the slightest bit wrong in his lifetime. That would make Trump the only human in history to have been better than Jesus.
@Bobrzyca Pola are you saying jimmy carter is yuck or christianity is yuck? I can agree that jimmy carter is yuck because he was an awful presidnt
@Bobrzyca Pola Carter was a Christian. America is all about greed graft and materialism. That's why trp got in.
As an Episcopalian, I suddenly am interested in public office...
And also with you
Haha 😄
Hey idk what that is could you explain?
Yeah please explain, is it a branch of Christianity?
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Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn is what most Christians should be like. Kind, loving and willing to help others. I groan when I see people like MTG and Lauren Boebert talking about love and kindness when they do nothing but spew hatred towards others, particularly towards Jews and Muslims.
This is so interesting. I never realized how many 18th and 19th century presidents were so liberal in terms of religious beliefs. I always assumed they were all devout followers because they were old. Now I feel like I grew up more religiously conservative then they did
You're right. I'm old and grew up as a Baptist. The Baptist church was more progressive and left-leaning 50+ years ago. Today's Baptists act like Nazis. That's why Jimmy Carter left the church and became a Methodist. BTW, I left the Baptist church too more than 30 years ago. They've lost 1 million members over the past 10 years because the conservatives who control the church today are insufferable.
Well, America experienced a major religious shift during the 1950s, mostly as a result of a reaction to communism, but also due to certain demographic trends relating to the rise of suburbs.
The wounds were still fresh in people's minds. Many people came here to seek religious freedom and escaping theocracies and national religions. Also what the other poster said, the fight against the "Godless commies" which put forth that whole "in God we trust" and "under God" in the pledge as a unification tactic. It's been downhill ever since. I'm curious to see what would happen if we had a modern day atheist/agnostic president.
That's why people don't like it when you assume that America was based off of religion
That’s what happens when you’re not educated
As an European, it is really weird to see how many different versions of Christianity the US has. I can only think of two versions of protestantism here and those are Lutheran and Anglican.
@Mr Mole you can not just willy nilly call the soul, the life blood of people "waste of time." If you are an atheist then its fine, but keep your beleifs to yourself preferably unless you are going to explain, or unless you are asked. I dont mean any offense whatsoever.
I’m American and can’t follow all the different flavors of “Jesus people” and their differences. In my defense, I’m Jewish
It's the same reason we have so many different brands of breakfast cereal than the Europeans.
That’s because most European countries have had official (state sanctioned) churches for centuries. Minority sects often faced persecution until the modern era. And where did folks who faced religious persecution flee to? America - a nation of immigrants with a wide diversity of religious faiths.
@@ddrissel thats great, europe sent all the crazy fundamentalists to america and cleansed themselves.
Jimmy Carter is one of the most devoted Christian Presidents that I'm aware of. He valued human life to the point he sacrificed his own presidency to preserve it, and he still does charity work to build homes for the needy, even to this day.
I love Jimmy Carter honestly
Jimmy Carter was one of the worst presidents ever lol
@@clainmings7052 No he wasn't, he was one of the best because he acted like a real human being would, with a heart. He didn't act like a politician. He acted like a human being.
@@ThunderTheBlackShadowKitty were you alive during that time? He completely destroyed to economy. People lived in fear they wouldn’t have gas or fuel
Jimmy Ca - hte in short is, wee hin dee - hing = weeling dealing with the enemys. Unpatriotic ' ' 4 ' '' faced trator!
One thing you didn’t mention about Eisenhower, he was raised a Jehovah’s Witness, but he never really accepted their faith or was baptized in it. But his parents were deeply religious, and in the days when the JW’s were simply known as “Bible Students,” they conducted religious services at their home in Kansas, before any church (called ‘Kingdom Hall’) was established there. His parents died with that faith. His mother lived to see him become president.
As someone who grew up in that strange faith (I quietly left), that must've been a huge deal given they adamently oppose political participation. Imagine her shock.
@EndDimsthis is a sentiment i’ve seen actually. my highschool had (i graduated but they’re still a lot of the students there) a lot of JWs and my friend told me that before she fully committed to the faith that they encouraged her to research all other faith options and gave her a lot of resources to do so before she made her choice. i do agree with a few of their beliefs in the sense of holidays and all that because i’ve always hated thanksgiving and a lot of it is just capitalism, but anyways yeah not that i thought they were all crazy, but before i switched to that highschool i had never actually known a JW and they’re all super chill!! i was also extremely respectful of their beliefs and so that definitely helped, since i am christian, but obviously not a JW 😹😹
@@applesandgrapesfordinner4626 As a pimo, early bible students were very different from modern JWs. Rutherford's sect became dominant but other bible students groups still exist and don't have many of the practices which characterize JWs as a cult, like mandated preaching, shunning, or refusal of blood transfusion. I whould recommend reading "Rutherford's coup" to understand how a lot of modern doctrines started. Right now I'm still a member technically but my beliefs are closer to a non-denominational Arian.
I'm surprised at the number of presidents who attended church services for the sake of their wives
That's always been the stereotype. That women were the ones who kept their husbands religious. That's what my parents tried to do with me. Trying to set me up with a religious girl in our church to convert me.
what Methodist pussy does to a man
@@jeremy7372 lol what😂
Yeah I especially think Zachary Taylor wouldn't have gone to church at all if not for his wife.
anything for pussy amiright
Most of the list: We don’t know much but he was officially Episcopalian.
Imagine a revolutionary from the 1700s seeing a Catholic and a Quaker running in 1960
"we gave them Maryland and Pennsylvania, what more do they want"
"VVHAT IS THIS DEVILRAE!!!!" *angry Witchfinder General noises*
Never mind 1960, it happened in 1928.
@Central Based Agency Imagine being alt-right but not feeling all right
@Central Based Agency imagine being a christian and letting your country be destroyed
As a Muslim, I did not know that before the 1950s that we are called mohammaden. I didn't even know that there is word like that.
Before many people in Europe and the US had personal acquaintance with Muslims, they used this term, but dropped it once they realized it was offensive to Muslims since Muslims don't worship Mohammed and don't use this term to refer to themselves.
@@evandonovan9239 makes sense.
@@evandonovan9239They do practically worship Muhammad.
Islam requires complete and absolute obedience to Allah AND Muhammad.
@@olekcholewa8171
Worship and obedience are two different things that are not necessarily the same thing. The authority of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) is derived from God. Therefore, in obeying the Prophet, we are fulfilling God’s commandment.
@@olekcholewa8171 Muhammad is to Muslims what Mary is to Catholic Christians.
I’m a simple man. I see Mr. Beat make a presidents video, I click.
I mean Mr.Beat does sounds like a chad.
@@ingore9021 He is .
@Ingore, bold of you to assume someone doesn't think Mr. Beat is a chad.
@@nevergivingup3434 He's the biggest chad in the world. Did you not see his incredible masculine profile picture. The girls he teaches in World History AP are probably creaming their jeans.
Reshiram
FDR standing up isn’t real, he can’t hurt you
FDR standing up: 19:51
he lost his ability to walk only cus of polio
Alien 🤣
Its very scary
This will be a good entry in my “cursed images with Mr. Blue Sky playing in the background” video
He was, able to walk until he was 39 (in 1921).
Thanks for putting me in the title!
I meant Thumbnail! oops.
Any time Mr. President
I like you and Reagan
@@iammrbeat it would be sad if he died today or tomorrow in the comment
God-bless you! You are the 1st president I voted for.
Imagine just sitting in Sunday school, then president Benjamin Harrison walks in to teach.
I legit thought It would just be Protestant, Protestant, Protestant with the 2 Catholics but then I realised it would be internal denominations
Edit: Wow this comments replies exploded
Joe is a fake Catholic. You can’t support abortion rights and still be considered one such a idiot.
@@lucaspajak1254 that comment is so unrelated lol
@@lucaspajak1254
Clearly you never been to the Republic of Ireland or voted for Sien Finn lol.
@@lucaspajak1254 Nearly all majority Catholic countries in Europe are pro-abortion
@@lucaspajak1254 To be fair I do recall Biden having said that while he would not opt for abortion in his own life, he didn't wish to use his power to take away other's right to
Europeans seeing the title: oh hey, imma learn about the religious diversity of American presidents!
Americans: Protestant and that one time we had a Catholic but that didn’t last long…
@hr zr “weird sects” could be read as a little bit condescending, though I have no reason to believe you meant it that way. Just like in Europe, there is a lot of diversity within American Protestantism, and the American Protestant denominations are deeply interwoven in history with European ones. The Episcopals talked about in this video are basically the Church of England, but post-revolutionary war. The Presbyterians are calvinists that descend from the Church of Scotland. Methodists are intricately linked with the Methodists of Britain. Baptists, Pentecostals, and many others are largely from the first and second great awakenings, movements in the US that reinvigorated religious fervor with new branches of Protestantism that largely appealed to lower classes.
@hr zr in England the majority of Christians are Protestant but a few Catholic, and that’s basically it. We’re like 80% atheist though.
@@whwhwhhwhhhwhdldkjdsnsjsks6544 Atheist or agnostic? Agnostic is much more bareable.
@@jamesmccloud1002 Atheist mainly. Why does it make a difference though?
@hr zr Where are you from?
Take a shot each time Mr. Beat says Episcopalian.
I took so many that I started to think that he was saying “pescatarian”.
alright me and my friend just did that and he's on the ground now doing some dance moves
I’m in hospital now
🥴
I have severe alcohol poisoning and I’m now in the E.R
“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. “ -Abe Lincoln (secondary source)
There's something so funny about seeing someone who went in-depth on the nuances and complexity of religion and government utter the words "jarjarbinks420" at the end
Big Man Tyrone has announced a gospel album and used the term "hentai" in the same week beforr
I love my Patreon supporters lol
it caught me so off guard because the rest of the names were fairly normal.. and then jarjarbinks420
Roman Catholic here. But my family is historically Eastern Catholic, Hungarian Byzantine to be specific.
Cool
That's awesome. I used to go to a Ukrainian Byzantine Catholic parish regularly.
Gorog katolikus👊👍
@@bendsomemetal Forgive my ignorance but is Ukrainian Byzantine Catholic similar to East Orthodox?
@@hackman669 Yes, their Divine Liturgy is almost exactly the same
It's now well known, but Eisenhower's parents belonged to a group called the International Bible Students, which would later be known as the Watchtower Society. Like many other of of our great generals, his initial attraction for West Point was that it offered a free education.
19:53 I can't sleep well at night anymore after seeing FDR standing up
For what it's worth, he didn't suffer from his paralytic illness until he was around 40 or so
Well, he stood up for a lot during his Presidency. ;)
@@munimathbypeterfelton6251 Actually, during the latter half of his presidency, FDR was often in his wheelchair, but the press were not allowed to photograph him unless he was standing up, and even in those cases, Elinore was often helping him stand.
all he had to do to stand was to tighten the screws in his leg braces. he did it all the time.
"Hey, where can I find an Episcopalian? Oh, everywhere? Thanks."
Just the White House apparently.
My representative (Don Young from Alaska) is a member of that denomination.
@@seanpeters3690 Cool!
@@superdude899 I am one.
It’s the US branch of the Church of England... Episcopalians are Anglicans
17:00 ”believe in God and dont believe in divinity of christ” wow! unitarians are one step closer to islam all along lol
Yup
Or Judaism.
@@JPMJPM yup
Many sahabah were Unitarian Christian. Salman Al Farsi was a notable one.
LOL if you defined unitarian and replaced the caption to islam it would be the same thing
One thing we can all agree on The day a Scientologist is a president we arescrewd
Yeah avoid cults.
We almost got there once, when Barrack - Hussein - Obama was in charge. HAs a F A C T = He isn't Christian, not at all! He is I S L A M!! !!
Your uploads are always the highlight of my week. (I was baptized on my wife's death anniversary)
Thanks Mr. President!
#JustMonika
Oh, the tragic life of a doughface.
The tragic life of a doughface
@@iammrbeat Fun fact: I got made fun of in 9th grade for looking like Franklin Pierce (one of America’s worst presidents). In 10th grade, I learned that he is widely regarded as the hottest president in history. I had the last laugh.
McKinley was a nice man. Genuine respect for all people. My great grandma knew him. She was a servant in a home he would visit. He stood out as a man who treated servants with just as much respect as anyone else.
He is truly an underrated president. When he was shot, he talked down the people around him from immediately killing the assassin.
I'm glad to hear that since my biological mom always claim we were releated to McKinley.
He was also the only president that served as an enlisted man in the military. He joined during the Civil War at 18 years old as a Private, and was at the Battle of Antietam. By the end of the war he had climbed the ranks to Major.
That´s good unless he treated everyone like shit lol
@@knightshade2654 they didn't kill the assasin lol.
Like what the fuck are you talking about?
I feel it's appropriate that Taft, the most ABSOLUTE UNIT of a president, also happened to be a Unitarian
He ate the trinity
@@dean4903 Took a bite out of the Holy Spirit and sucked on the father
It’s so funny that the dude wouldn’t even be considered abnormally large by today’s standards.
@@specialknees6798 how many obese people get stuck in their bathtubs nowadays?
@@specialknees6798 I just looked up his weight and he cracked 300 at 6' tall. That's like football player size 😂crazy. The way they talk about Taft you'd think he was like 500lbs. He was just a massive man it seems.
Well,
Being an Indian Hindu, i am just noting down the names of different sects of christianity, I really didn’t knew this much is been existing in the world.
Great video mr. beat
They're not sects, they're congregations
The 4 major divisions are Roman Catholic, Protestant, and (rarely mentioned as it's only 1% of the US population, though more common elsewhere) Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox. Protestant subdivides into many smaller pieces, over 30,000 denominations. Some pieces, like Unitarian, many others in Christianity wouldn't even consider Christian due to denying the divinity of Christ.
@@amayasasaki2848 ohh…
Amazing to know this. Thanks for the knowledge amaya🤝
@@amayasasaki2848Some other barely recognised sects are Progressive, Mormon and Jehovah’s Witnesses
@@invictus143 "sects" is a more generic word in religious studies for "denominations". "Congregation" means an individual local church, typically.
Interesting to see that some of the most religious people to become president were the most vocal on the separation of Church and State. It was likely just that they were being fielded questions about it more often due to their religious nature.
For non religious people the reasoning was to keep religion out of politics but for my many religious friends & family they fear the government would interfere with there rights so they don't want the government interference.
The politics, with its antics and bravado often perverts religion.
Religious nuts can make trash political decisions as well, but I think the former is more common and worse and happening to 99 percent if churches today.
I want religion protected from the state. I guess they did too.
@@phoenix21studios it's good that its protected but i don't want them telling me how I should think either.
As a religious person myself, I'm fortunate that my government is secular but does lean to my religion. However, if my government wasn't secular and I happened to be a different religion, I would be really afraid
Good Video
Thanks Mason!
yes
How is this comment from 12 hours ago?
@@JayyyElite I watched the video when it was unlisted, as Mr. Beat put it in a playlist.
@@masonshipton2344 oh ok didn't know that
The dedication to research and patience in making this is outstanding! I can’t imagine how long this took to complete. Thank you buddy. Keep it up 👍
Right? This quality of video and research going into a FREE video is mind boggling if I'm being honest. This is 📺 worthy at least. I know he gets paid from youtube ads and sponsors but it still ain't enough or he could be lazy and just do the minimum outlined in his contract but he goes above and BEYOND in all his videos. I hope he's well compensated ALONG with his team if he has a team. God damn him/ they did an amazing job on this video and every video on this channel you can tell there is genuine passion flowing through every aspect of the material. They don't pick what's guaranteed to get the most clicks they pick topics that they are into and interesting at the same time. It's nice to see a channel not bogged down by greed or corporate distractions and personal issues. Let's hope it stays that way i have hope for Mr. Beat that he has enough dignity to stay on the right path. It's a good source that's diligently researched and well presented and professionally edited with professional ➿ voice work. We sre lucky to have access for free to these types of videos.
Thank you Mr. Beat for the time and effort. Please continue for the sake of others to continue learning
Mr. Beat, you are most interesting! I find that what I hear on your channel spurs me on to do additional research. I am a retired R.N. Who has become so very interested in history: Civil War, U.S. presidents, great shipwrecks and the “Wild West”. I have learned much from my reading and from informative videos like yours. Thank you for all the great info. You share with your watchers. Norma Jean Morrissey R.N.
Cant wait for the president who believes in Norse mythology..
Edit: No I dont believe In it Who Tf does?
This comment showed first for me, even though it is not close to having the most likes and is not pinned. Probably because TH-cam understands comedy.
You already have that, it’s called the military industrial complex, except they belobe in sending poor people’s Children to Valhalla.
Yo I can’t wait for Odin to fix the economy🤣🤣🤣
@@otakuuuz1250 may Thor Strike out enemies (:
Germany had one. . . You should look into that.
Thank you for the video, Mr. Beat.
Hi, Mr. President!
@@moosemangarfield9650 Greetings fellow citizen
Is your son ok?
@@terrellbraggjr4648 he's probably having a argument with Andrew Jackson
Donald is correct
"taylor wasn't that religious"
but mr. beat, he refused to get sworn in march 4th, 1849 because it was a sunday
Game day?
This was fascinating! I grew up Presbyterian. I still believe in God and all that but I got disenchanted with my church over the years. Honestly, knowing that Reagan, Bush, and Trump all have ties to my old church explains a ton. My church was very politically conservative and it was alienating. I kinda relate to Obama, just dabbling in different Christian denominations. I can’t really find something that suits me but I hope I do.
Mr. BARCK * HUSSEIN * O'BAMAM PAPPA IS ' ' N O T ' ' CHRISTAN @ ALL!! HE IS ISLAM!!
Read into the Orthodox Way, see what Christ taught His disciples and how the Church fathers kept these lessons.
God be with you now and always
There are two main Presbytarian branches. One is conservative, the other is not. Just like how there are two Baptist branches- one conservative, the other not.
I am way too obsessed with your channel.
It is an addicting channel, isn't it Aaliyah? I've been following Mr. Beat since almost his start on TH-cam.
Same! UP TOP! ✋😁
@@Mii.2.0 🖐😆
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Mr. Beat popping out another banger video. Keep up the amazing videos.
Thank you Lucas!
Interesting fact about Ike: his parents became Jehovah's Witnesses but Ike himself didn't get baptized into the religion and he didn't like it at all. Hence only officially joining a church in '52.
Military personnel don't usually attend local churches but will attend the base chapel. The military has a Chaplain Corps from nearly every religious denomination including Judaism and Islam. The Chaplains are from various denominations but serve all where possible.
The cool ones
2:18 George Washington
9:10 Honest Abe
16:27 Teddy Roosevelt
19:46 FDR
21:00 Dwight Eisenhower
21:52 JFK
23:04 Jimmy Carter
23:28 Ronald Reagan
23:54 George H. W. Bush
25:19 Obama (I don't know his last name)
25:59 Donald Trump
26:23 Joe Biden
Obama is his last name
Barack is his first name
Barack Obama
I wanna see an Amish President. I know this would be way outside their whole thing, but still
Perhaps then we would have less war.
@@joeyjohnson7795 and less electricity.
Their whole idea was cutting off the outer world tho. Being president means having to connect with all tech and public etc., not something they want.
@@joeyjohnson7795 there were two Quaker presidents. Quakers, by definition, are supposed to be pacifist (why a lot of them identify as Conscientious Objectors if they are forced to serve in the army under conscription) . Ironically, the Quaker-raised Nixon was one of the more pro-war US Presidents in the country's history.
The Amish are growing rapidly in numbers so.....maybe we will
Mr. Beat should do a video about every presidents death and last words, also great video so far 👍
I think that's already been done by Fire of Learning, but perhaps I could put my own spin on it. :)
@@iammrbeat ironically Ulysses Grants last words were "water" and he was baptized on his death bed
@@iammrbeat Fire of Learning*
Millard Fillmore: "the nourishment was palatable", referring to a bowl of soup
@@laurensgravesteijn2069 The man said “This shit bussin”, then had a stroke and fucking died.
Wondering how they can stretch out "Protestant, except Kennedy and Biden" into an almost 30 minute video...
In America, we have half a million varieties of Protestantism. Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Seventh-Day Adventist, Jehovah's Witnesses, Latter-Day Saints (although the last three aren't considered Christian let alone Protestant by most Americans.)
Wow! You did a lot of research. well done! Thank you
Mr Truman, he declared USA as a Christian nation mostly to contradict the “atheist” USSR. Thus so the same reason we say god in the pledge
It definitely now explains why Trumpsters call anybody they hate or disagree with Communists
@@kittycatmeowmeow963 no no they don't. They call communists communists.
@@josephsaab7208 They seem to call anyone who doesn't praise trump a communist these days even though most of them probably don't actually know about communism.
@@josephsaab7208 LOL YOU DON'T EVEN FCKING KNOW WHAT COMMUNISM IS! FOOLS!
I study Socialist and Communist theory. You are a joke.
@@josephsaab7208 stop being ignorant and get educated
Fun fact: Israel has never had a prime minister who *was* religious. For the leader of a major party to appear to be religious (other than at major holidays, etc.) would actually be quite taboo, as religiously observant Jews are and have been a minority (13-20%) since independence.
Israel is a surprisingly secular country
@@iammrbeat Why “surprisingly”? Have you met Jews!? Other than a very devout minority - not a people known for religious fervor.
That being said - Israeli Jews, even “secular” ones - are generally more traditional than their American Jewish counterparts, which may have something to do with the fact that half or more of Israeli Jews are Sephardim/Mizrahim whereas Americans are nearly all Ashkenazi
That’s disturbing
@@benjaminr6153 Imagine being secular in Israel
@@B10101 why “imagine”? The majority of the population is secular already
I watched this all the way through, despite being a European who couldn't tell an Episcopalian from a Presbyterian from a Baptist
By halfway through I was hooked, I found myself shocked "He was a Baptist? I'd have had him down as an Episcopalian!"
I’m an American and I can’t tell the difference either. I doubt that most can.
@@Kaddywompous all of them are Protestant anyway...
I'm a Protestant and even I can't tell the difference. Trust me it's almost all the same with very minor differences.
The episcopal church has a presiding bishop, presbyterians have a ruling elder, Methodists have the ghost of John Wesley, Catholics have the Pope, baptists get baptized in a swimming pool kind of, and quakers are quakers
We praise the same god
Awesome video. Mr. Beat kinda reminds me of Mr. Crocker, but sane and a good teacher.
I'm a Catholic, too, Mr. Beat. Opinion respected.
He said he was raised catholic, not that he was still catholic
@@brendanmorin9935 Same here.
I’m catholic too.
I thinks it’s interesting about how we know about presidents religious beliefs, this video is very detailed I like it!
16:45 Nothing prepared me for the revelation that young Theodore Roosevelt was SO ASTOUNDINGLY HANDSOME
Come on let's be honest here, he was the sexiest president, possibly Ulysses s Grant but Roosevelt just has THAT THING THAT MAKES YOU GO FKGDCUIOBXDOOOOOOOOOOO
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@@kelpyg2660 Have you seen pictures of Rutherford Hayes when he was young?
@@iammrbeat just looked at those, and DAMN...
John F Kennedy too!
He looks ugly af
As a fellow Midwesterner, I appreciated the "Ope" thrown in at 19:48.
As Michigander I agree.
as an Episcopalian it’s fun to see how many people people of power were or are apart of the Episcopalian church
Why's that
@@beyondgenesis2954 it’s just informative and interesting to me so I enjoy that
Yeah I found that interesting as well. Also I heard that most people in the Episcopal church are wealthy. I was baptized Episcopalian but I consider myself agnostic today.
God bless you
@@ManiacMayhem7256 may god bless you as well❤️
I really enjoyed this video! I have a few comments/concerns:
-I think we can conclude from his speeches (including the one you quote, as well as the famous second inaugural address and others) that Lincoln believed in God, and had, at the least, a Christian understanding of God. (The often-cited “a house divided against itself” quote comes, as you probably know, from the Gospel of Mark.)
-On the other hand, I’m surprised that Eisenhower had any strong religious belief; he famously said that America needed a strong moral source, and that he didn’t care what it was. (That’s Billy Graham at 21:10)
-I would argue that there were a number of politicians who were never President, but whose religion-based activism had a greater effect on American political and social life than many presidents did. Among them are Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King Jr., and William Jennings Bryan.
“Look at me! I’m going to church! I’m a good boy!” That made me laugh so hard.
@The Geek Squad Leader well I mean, the only way to test if someone is willing to die for it is for them to die for it, so there’s no real way to know.
@The Geek Squad Leader well biden is catholic and he has been since he was raised.
what time stamp did he say that?
@The Geek Squad Leader They are religious but I don't think their an actively practising Christian.
@The Geek Squad Leader I get doubting that Trump is christian but why Biden?
We always say religion and the State should always be separate. But we never seriously separate them. A lot of people in this country in fact intentionally work very hard to provide the conditions for them to be getting closer and closer, and of course out of religious reasons. And the system gets corrupted and we have been moving closer to PlutoTheocracy.
I think that the separation of church and state is quite often misunderstood. It was made to not be like the Church of England to make a universal church. It’s to protect the church from the government. Not the opposite way
@@shady1234shady All that done was make churches a breeding ground for indoctrination and oppression and paedophilia
@@shady1234shady So many people refuse to accept this fact...
@@shady1234shady It also protects the government from religious policies in a circular manner in that by preventing the government from attacking religion, you imply that religious organizations cannot weaponize the government to gain demographic dominance.
Love your videos. They’re always so in depth yet easy to understand!
Glad you like them! :D
"Whos Religious, I'm Mr. Beat"
It sounded like he was his own religion.
Fantastic video. Thanks for putting it together. Interesting facts about the two Quaker presidents, Hoover and Nixon:
Herbert Hoover’s wife, the former Miss Lou Henry, was an Episcopalian who decided to become a Quaker when she married Mr. Hoover. Their wedding was performed, however, by Fr. Ramon Mestres, a Roman Catholic priest acting solely in a civil capacity.
According to our high school Spanish teacher, who was a Quaker, Richard Nixon was “read out of meeting” (excommunicated) when he joined the U.S. Navy during the Second World War.
As a practicing Episcopalian seeing so many Presidents keep it on the down low sounds about right. We’re nowhere near the most outgoing group of people religiously but very welcoming all the same.
The prevalence of Presbyterianism actually kinda surprised me.
I’m also certain that a good handful were actually atheistic, agnostic, or apatheistic, and just did what they did religiously for purely social reasons.
Presbyterian is a Scottish church. That's why Andrew Jackson and Polk, both being Scots-Irish, were Presbyterian.
@@africanrhino8508 I suspected as much--"Anglo-Saxonism" galore!
I highly doubt any of them were like that
@@niriop The Scotts were more Celtic than Anglo-Saxon.
Correct, many of the founding fathers were agnostic at the least.
I knew the Barack Obama thing was coming but when you said that, me being fully aware that it was going to happen, still laughed.
If Obama is a Christian I am a communist 😂
@@Georgios1821 he’s Muslim
the kernel of truth in the claim that he was a Muslim is that in Shariah Law he probably was: because his father was a Kenyan Muslim. His step-father was also an Indonesian Muslim. Went he went to school in Indonesia as a boy his religion was registered as Muslim. Having said that, I know he is not in fact Muslim
@@bdnl6268 he has never professed nor practiced the faith, but you are correct.
Obama is a Muslim like Eisenhower was a Jehovah's Witness.
@@studogable Obama is a Christian like the queen is a devout Buddhist. Clue 1 : what true Christian thinks the "sound of the call to Muslim prayer is the most beautiful sound of all."
It's also important to note that William McKinley actually died singing the lyrics to "Nearer My God to Thee".
shutup muslim i see you everywhere
Gandalf?
I find it funny still how the whole “separation of church and state” but presidents get a boost from being religious.
Because being religious is generally only going to be politically advantageous in America. Non religious voters, for the most part, don't mind voting for someone who is religious (assuming they aren't making decisions on behalf of their religion) whereas religious voters are much more inclined to not vote for someone because of their irreligion.
You know actually seperation of church and state is not an american value and it never was in the constitution
@@TakenWasTakenYT you're definitely taking some liberty with that take. The founders undeniably wanted there to be a separation of church and state. Many of them weren't even religious in the traditional sense, they were deists.
It's not explicitly written in the Constitution but the establishment clause of the first amendment clearly states "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof". Later Thomas Jefferson in his 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptist Association said that when the American people adopted the establishment clause as a part of the Constitution they built a “wall of separation between the church and state.” In 1947 the Supreme Court ruled in Everson v. Board of Education that the establishment clause applied to state/local governments as well.
Article VI, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution also states, "No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."
In the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli, John Adams wrote "the government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion".
James Madison wrote in Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments that "The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate... This right is in its nature an unalienable right and is to not be influenced or influence the government in anyway"
Thomas Jefferson in his 2nd augural address also said "In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the General Government and that it is to remain that way"
You can also look at all these cases that reinforce the separation of church and state: McCollum v. Board of Education (1948), Torcaso v. Watkins (1961), Engel v. Vitale (1962), Abington School District v. Schempp (1963), Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971), Stone v. Graham (1980), Wallace v. Jaffree (1985), Edwards v. Aguillard (1987), Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe (2000), Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002).
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Worth pointing out that the big concern for separation of church and state in the early years of America and elsewhere was less about protecting the state from the church, and more about protecting the church from the state, with people like Jefferson seeing politics as a corruptive influence on religion as much or more than the other way around. They were particularly thinking of what they saw in Europe as the churches essentially being arms of the government as much as anything else, and they generally favoured putting limits on the power of governments.
The idea of separation of church and state is NOT in the Constitution. This was a made up phrase Jefferson used to further his non-religious beliefs.
Yeah sadly us Christians of today are literally using office as a power grab, but I always thought Of separation of church and state as a way of protecting the church and the people. Especially when persecution happened in Europe for choosing a religion over another.
@@eos_2366 Ah no. Religion has been destroyed utterly and has little influence. America is majority non-religious now and most "Christians" are just liberal larpers. More than 50% of Catholics according to poles are just liberals who support abortion and sexual denigration. Those who do actually believe anything are so mocked, rejected, and villainized in society as to have no influence. The founders created this country specifically on Christianity and its teachings. They said it would collapse if absolutely anything else filled that gap. Seeing the state of things, I can confidently say they were right.
All we've been seeing are massive powergrabs by leftists who hold all the high positions of power.
@@eos_2366 Makes sense considering that many of the families living in the colonies were there because of MASSIVE persecution, and since the founding fathers weren't fans of the idea of the government purging the citizens, they separated the church and the state so that people wouldn't die
@@elvispresley2284 Wow. You have no idea about US History nor religion. The founders loved the church as it was more powerful than the government, culturally. The idea was to protect the church from the state. None of this actually exists in the constitution anyway, it was a letter.
Can we just appreciate that Mr. Beat is the, "President history guy of TH-cam" Oh wait I created nickname for Mr. Beat, but let's all appreciate the research he puts in his videos
Yeah
Can you create a nickname for me too? Thanks in advance.
This channel is amazing.
The Lincolns did frequent both a Presbyterian while in Springfield, IL and his language was very calvinistic. He also used Bunyan's Pilgrim's progress in a lot of metaphors. I would call him an cautious agnostic, but very sympathetic to puritanical ideals.
I’m surprised they didn’t mention the theory that Lincoln was a closet Mormon, having met and been friendly with Joseph Smith and also studying the Book of Mormon while president.
I would highly recommend the book “The Lincoln Hypothesis” by Tim Ballard, the leader of Operation Underground Railroad.
@@KnuttyEntertainment Joseph Smith considered running for POTUS but he was very divisive and would have split the country before the Civil War.
@@coweatsman That’s right, his quickly growing political prospects was one of the reasons for his assassination, as Nauvoo (the city he was mayor of) was the largest city in Illinois and its militia rivaled the US military.
He ran on an abolitionist platform and suggested legislation reminiscent of the 14th amendment, inspired by a meeting with president Martin Van Buren where he said he couldn’t help them in their fight against persecution because the 2nd amendment was unincorporated. The funniest thing about it all was that Joseph Smith also prophesied the Civil War decades in advance.
Belonging to a religion should disqualify you from public office,
@@KnuttyEntertainment You can read the bible, or whatever spinoff religions give you and still not be a part of that religion. Lincoln quite literally read every book he could get his hands on, so he read a lot of christian books from every corner of the US to get a perspective and gain knowledge from a common cause.
George Washington's diaries give account that he would wake up as early as 4 AM to pray...so....
Why are you reading his diary man, creepy
@@cevcena6692 I know, he wasn't home and I just couldn't help myself. I am indeed totally depraved
@@Riku17000 what a pervert smh,
so how many slaves did he own spill the tea
@@ussinussinongawd516The founding fathers were actually a little divided on slavery. They actually addressed it, and eventually said it was a necessary evil. They ultimately said it was England's fault they had slaves... soo... lol
Washington was also a Freemason. He could having been praying to satan or the sun for all we know.
The hot-button topics are said to be politics and religion. But your video doesn't inflate emotions. Well done!!
Wasn’t Coolidge once asked what did the minister preach on and reply sin. When push on what did the minister say about it, Coolidge then reportedly said he’s against it. So glad I found these videos. Love this kind of stuff
I think George didn’t talk about his religion, as he was trying to set a standard. I think he was religious, but didn’t want religion to be a major blow back for the USA
I mean he was also a freemason soooo
@@heyyo6050 Fair, but he also leaned federalist but never made it a part of his public life except when he had to make policies and he wasn’t a radical federalist like Maddison
@@sseasoning4024 Oh I agree with your statement it's just him being freemason and religious make him a complex and interesting person.
Most likely, he was a deist.
In addition to not talking about his religion, he would frequently leave the church before the sacraments, and didn't really have much care for religious teachings.
He actually was more into classical moral philosophers like the Stoics and Epicureans.
I’ve been to Jimmy Carter’s church-totally recognized those green walls.
Why do presidents swear an oath using the bible, it makes more sense to swear by the constitution
It’s strange to swear by what you are sweating to protect, you’re supposed to swear by sobering higher than the subject.
@@boygenius538_8 wouldn't that imply that religion is above the constitution in that case you would be showing loyalty and importance to religious ideology over the constitution
@@Falchanco yes it is implying that. Otherwise the oath wouldn’t work. You can’t swear by your mother to your mother.
@@boygenius538_8 well only God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are higher than the bible so...
@@robbiemcgowan3477 true but what if the president isn't christian would they change it from the bible to the Torah or Quaran or any other holy book I'm legit confused on the procedure
Taft was also part of the Church of the Holy Doughnut for a couple years.
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@@iammrbeat bruh u answered with caps xd
I have an idea, you should do All The Presidents' Parents, like how you did 'All The Presidents' Kids'. That video did pretty well and I think it would get you a lot more subscribers and viewers.
Great suggestion!
Especially Joe Kennedy
I did a comprehensive report on Dwight David Eisenhower when I was in junior high school in the mid '90s and he was actually raised as one of Jehovah's Witnesses by his mother, a fact that I didn't know until then.
Huh. One of our Presidents was raised in a cult? How odd.
In fact Ike's mom wasn't too enthusiastic about his choice of career since they oppose joining the military or getting involved in politics. Not even voting let alone running for office.
@@fordprefect5967 in the right context any religion will look like a cult. They've gone through several reforms over the decades but they are for the most part evangelicals with a side of eschatology. Doctrine inside the organization (they will never refer to themselves as a church) prioritizes ministry and self-actualization in regards to worship. Their interpretation of the Bible is as an absolute though an individual's views on scripture and the extent to which it must be followed to the letter varies considerably. One of the most bizarre and hurtful practices within the group though is disfellowshipping. If a member of a congregation is caught out in some sort of wrongdoing be it of a secular or a religious nature they'll get several sessions with congregation elders and depending on whether they are repentant or not the matter will be either dropped, they will be announced as reproved, or they are announced as disfellowshipped. In short they are totally shunned both in and out of service, disallowed from commenting during Q&A sessions, denied ministry service of all description, and they won't even TALK to you until you show your repentance.
Not really the best way to get the lost lambs back on the path.
We need more Catholic Presidents
Amen.
Unfortunately, 1 of the 2 catholic presidents has been the worst president in U.S. history.
Ex-Catholic here, no no we don’t. Catholics have enough power in this country as it is and look whst that’s gotten us.
Quaker culture is really interesting. I was raised Lutheran by my grandparents, and later atheist by my mom but moved out next to a historic Quaker village for a year and my fiancé and i always enjoyed going there and just learning the history from wherever was open
I grew up Quaker before gravitating towards the Orthodox church. Modern Quaker culture is still very different from what I'd say mainstream Protestant culture is like in a lot of ways in terms of the socioeconomic habits that are followed and the level of mystical, spiritual practices that are genuinely believed in. I've sometimes felt like I've had more in common in terms of how my family system works with the kids of immigrants from Europe than other Americans. Old Quaker families are very clanish, try to force their kids to be academically oriented at all costs, vehemently pacifist, emphasize diligence, and are way less likely to jive with 'suburban' culture. The system in which I was raised was definitely not an average one, but I'm still glad I grew up in a Quaker household, I feel like it has inoculated me against materialism and consumerism pretty effectively.
Please remember that there are three types of Quakers (Friends): Guernyite, Wilberite and Hicksite. (Please pardon any misspellings.) Although those names are rarely used today, the Guernyites are now referred to as "Evangelical Friends" and have actual churches, ministers, et cetera. The Hicksites are now referred to as "Liberal/Progressive Quakers/Friends and practice traditional Quaker 'rituals', such as silent meeting, et cetera, yet are very liberal theologically, many considering themselves "Post-Christian" or even "Non-Christian". They are very socially active, in true Quaker tradition. The Wilberites are few in number and are the "Orthodox", practicing silent meeting and all other traditional Quaker/Friend practices and 'rituals', sometimes including the wearing of 'plain' clothing and even using some archaic words such as "thee" and "thou" in their speech, from what I understand.
At 16:23, he wanted to christianize the Filipinos. Didn't Spain do an excellent job already?
Not in Mindanao
@@lindadechiazza2924 Even in the most Non-Christian remote places of Mindanao, theres are fair enough share of minority Christians, especially Christian Catholics. And anyways the entire population of Mindanao is pretty Christian-Catholic majority
I'm not even american, but I really found this video interesting! My POV is that being a religious president is not so important, but respecting every religion and religious people in the country is something extremely important. If a president is religious then bringing his best religious values can make a good difference for the people in general.
I would say it does matter, and I speak from experience. I will only vote for a president that has policies that i agree with. No Athiest, jehovah's witness, catholic, or Methodist, will hold to all of the policies that I hold to, so i would not vote for them.
However there is an exception. A lot of politicians pretend to be religious for the benefit of their viewers. So I can put up with voting for someone who is one of the religions I mentioned, if they do hold to my policies. It's just that I dont see them as following the religion they say they are.
You need to respect peoples right to believe what ever they wish no matter how insane it seems to you. You do not need to respect the beliefs. No one would suggest we have to be respectful about ISIS, to make an extreme example. Same is true for anything faith based. You do not need to respect Catholicism but you do need to respect peoples right to be Catholics.
@@hanstun1 except for as you say, people like ISIS we do not have to respect their "right" to be in ISIS because they do not have one, the very idea behind ISIS is such that no one should be even allowed to join them.
@@hanstun1 That is a flawed point. ISIS is not a religion. It is a terrorist group like the IRA. It's not even Islamic. People should respect people's values sure. What I don't understand is your point. It's non-sequitur and contradictory. Here you say "You need to respect people's right to believe whatever they wish no matter how insane it seems to you. " and then you say " No one would suggest we have to be respectful about ISIS". Mate where did you get your education.
@@jasonstevenson4067 Haha! religious freaks on one side on woke freaks on the other!
Omg I love this channel!!!! keep them coming!!!