Name two presidents that were of your denomination. Mine : LBJ and Ronald Reagan

[Ptah]

Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th President of the United States, who taught Sunday School as a young man and regularly
attended National City Christian Church on Thomas Circle in Washington, D.C. during his time as President
(but whose family, however, had been staunchly Baptist and whose wife Lady Bird Johnson was a devoted Episcopalian)

Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (baptized into the Disciples as a youth, and graduated from the
Disciples' Eureka College, but a member of Bel Air Presbyterian Church in his later years)

Guess that church

[evlbstrd]

1. John Kennedy and...

... and ...

[dpbrown]

26. Ditto...

...and...?

[JVS]

2. None

[LostinVA]

14. I thought you were Catholic

Kennedy was Catholic.

[JVS]

16. Lutheran, full Book of Concord style

[LostinVA]

18. Ah

[laconicsax]

3. None......

[quip]

4. John Adams and Calvin Coolidge, both Congregationalists (the only 2)

[Ptah]

15. I like community power

"Congregational churches are Protestant Christian churches practicing congregationalist
church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its
own affairs."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregational_church

[BrotherBuzz]

53. Big merge in 1957 created UCC - same independence and autonomy, but with more clout

In 1957, the General Council of Congregational Christian Churches in the U.S. merged with the Evangelical and Reformed Church to form the United Church of Christ - UCC

[NNadir]

5. Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln were both reported to be atheists.

The latter claim is highly controversial, however. It was made by Billy Herndon, Lincoln's law partner and biographer.

Many people who knew Lincoln, most notably Mrs. Lincoln, claim that Herndon's biography was fanciful.

Herndon himself was an atheist.

[quip]

9. Deists, at the very least

[kwassa]

37. I've sat in Lincoln's pew in New York Avenue Presbyterian in D.C.

[NNadir]

43. Herndon sat in Lincoln's office for about 20 years.

Lincoln never joined any church although a great deal of religious imagery was attached to him after because of his death on Good Friday.

Of course one wonders why an extremely religious man would be going to a play, particularly a light comedy, on Good Friday in the first place. Shouldn't he have been praying somewhere?

It must be said that Lincoln's speeches all have a religious cadence, and the most important of them make religious references. This may be however a function of the fact that one of the few books available to Lincoln in his youth was the Bible.

(Another was Parson Weem's "Life of George Washington.")

As a very deft politician, he was certainly aware that he needed to make an obeisance to the religious attitudes of his country. It is still not safe or comfortable to be an athiest in America, and I believe it was less so then. In 1988 the morally crippled father of the current resident of the White House remarked that atheists are not Americans.

[femmocrat]

6. None.

[Ptah]

7. He became an ordained minister in 1964 in the mainstream Christian denomination, Disciples of Christ

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones

[quip]

8. Crikey-- Ike was a Christian Scientist???

:shrug:

[Ptah]

17. Huh?

:shrug:

[quip]

36. Huh is right! Uh, what I meant was.... Ike was raised in a Jehovah's Witness home

Same difference, no? :crazy:

[Hawkeye-X]

10. I have exactly _0_ Presidents that are Jewish

Lieberman came close... but no avail!

[bluethruandthru]

11. None n/t

[sakabatou]

12. None

No Jewish or Atheist presidents.

[skater314159]

33. None... I think... but mebbe two.

Here's an interesting Wikipedia list - its the Presidents' religious affiliations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Presidential_religious_affiliations

I fear that as I was raised Catholic and Jewish, and have been a Pagan with Jewish and Catholic influences since puberty, I don't think there were any that were of my faith path. Since Adams was a Universalist and Jefferson was a deist, then I'll claim them!

:hippie:

[Connonym]

34. yup and I doubt whether we'll see an atheist president in our lifetime

[BrotherBuzz]

13. John Adams and Calvin Coolidge

Adams later became a Unitarian

[GoddessOfGuinness]

20. I saw a preview for a miniseries about John Adams that's going to be released soon...

I'm psyched about it, as he was one of my favorite founding fathers.

[BrotherBuzz]

23. I'll keep an eye peeled for it

Adams' two terms as Vice President were frustrating experiences for a man of his vigor, intellect, and vanity. He complained to his wife Abigail, "My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."

[Xipe Totec]

19. Washington, Lincoln, Hamilton, and Jackson

Grant and the rest of the dead presidents are too rich for my blood; I haven't seen a $50 bill in ages.

[JVS]

21. Good news, the dollar coins will cover them all up through Ford!

Reagan doesn't get in until after Carter croaks and gets put on a coin. Take good care of yourself jimmy!

[Hardrada]

39. Yeah, there'll be a Nixon dollar!

[OzarkDem]

22. ...

:rofl: :hug:

[triguy46]

24. Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, thank you very much....

and not likely to be followed by Huckleberry Huckaby.

[triguy46]

25. I've been going to a Disciples church for 2 years now....

had no idea that I shared that with ronnie.

[Fox Mulder]

27. So which President or Presidents were agnostic?

[WinkyDink]

28. Ummmm.... Can't. JFK stands alone.

[Midlodemocrat]

51. LOL. For me, too.

[Aristus]

29. George W. Bushitler is at least nominally a Methodist. That blows.

The President of the United Methodist Church begged him not to invade Iraq. The Chimp ignored him. He can't possibly be a true Methodist because one of the cornerstones of the church is social justice. B*sh wouldn't know what that was if it bashed him upside his empty ugly head.

[Cabcere]

32. Ugh...same here.

:puke: That wanker gives us all a bad name - which I could live with, if that was ALL he did, but of course it's not. x(

[Hardrada]

40. He gives a bad name to the human race.

Or Mammalia.

[xmas74]

46. Same here.

Though if Hillary were elected (not trying to pick a fight, just saying...) we would have another Methodist president.

Just saying.

[Kutjara]

30. Hard to be sure.

My first answer was "none" because there have been no expressly atheist presidents, although Jefferson probably came closest. In truth, though, I'd say more than a few presidents merely paid lip service to religion, so there might have been a handful of "closet cases" over the years.

And I'm not even counting the crew of death cultists we've got in power now.

[Fenris]

31. George Washington and FDR

[kwassa]

35. Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Harrison, Tyler, Taylor,

Pierce, Arthur, FDR, Ford, and George H.W. Bush

Episcopalians all.

[DarkTirade]

38. As far as I know...

there haven't been any pagan/athiest/whateverthefuckIam presidents... :P

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

41. None, nor will there ever be, I'm quite certain

Can you guess what I am?

[NNadir]

44. A scientogolist?

[xmas74]

47. Muslim.

Seems like we've talked about it before.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

50. Nope - Muslim

I think in today's climate a Scientologist has more of a shot at it.

[Hardrada]

42. No Lutheran presidents alas.

No Irish Popes either. Now why is that?

[TreasonousBastard]

45. Hoover and Nixon

[FloridaJudy]

48. John Adams, John Quincy Adams

Millard Fillmore and Thomas Jefferson(?) were Unitarians. The question mark next to Jefferson indicates that although he frequently espoused Unitarianism in his letters, he never joined a congregation (there weren't any in the US in his lifetime: funny how that works).

As for Unitarians with a Buddhist flavor, dream on! The US Congress just swore in its first Buddhist last year. And I doubt there'll be an Agnostic one in any of our lifetimes.

[Withywindle]

49. Never been an Eclectic Pagan Universalist President, AFAIK.

Shit, I'd even settle for an old-school Gardnerian Wiccan or a Golden Dawn Theosophist. And tedious and pompous as they can be, even a Thelemite would be a nice change from all these tedious Christians.

I'd take a Sufi over a super-ascetic Buddhist, though. And I would so love to see a Santerian in the running one of these years, ideally with some Shinto and Asatru in the cabinet.


ah, we have SUCH a long way to go to achieve meaningful diversity. The best "interfaith" dialogues can do is "any religion you like...as long as it's one of those things from the Middle East with Abraham." *yawn*

[1gobluedem]

52. Only one so far....JFK

It amazes me that this country has only had one Catholic president considering how large the Catholic population is.