The fact that a person takes Communion is not a definite sign that they are orthodox Christians. James Abercrombie once criticized him harshly from the pulpit about his refusal to celebrate the Eucharist. The reasons that he adduces have to do with church politics, plus the fact that the Rev. Lillback’s most interesting argument is an alternative explanation of why Washington refused to take Communion at two churches while he was president. But a closer look reveals a series of invalid arguments. It’s the best book on faith and the founding I think I’ve ever read.”ĭid Beck actually read this huge tome? Running almost 1,200 pages with 500 pages of endnotes and 10 indices, conservative Presbyterian minister Peter Lillback’s George Washington’s Sacred Fire certainly gives the impression of thorough scholarship. On his show Beck enthused: “It so discredits all of the scholars and it’s amazing. Thanks to Glenn Beck’s fawning promotion, an obscure self-published book on George Washington’s religion has become a best seller on. Religion was one sturdy pillar of the temple of government Washington helped design and construct, but Christ, about whom he was deafeningly silent, was absent from the temple’s architecture. Old Life Theological Society (Presbyterian) Rather than scoring points in the culture wars against liberals, Lillback’s argument boomerangs on everyone who thinks that taking religion seriously applies only to the “other” side. George Washington in a letter to Lafayette (August15, 1787) Anonymous posting to a review of Lillback’s Sacred Fireīeing no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church with that road to Heaven, which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest, and least liable to exception. As a fellow minister in Peter Lillback’s denomination, I can tell you that a large number of us are embarrassed by his poor historical methodology.
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