what were his religious views?
Historian G.S Wood believes that he denied the miracles of the Bible, but always respected the religiosity of people, while Everett thinks that he believed in a religion based on reason and common sense.
John Adams
But historian Gordon S. Wood (2017) writes, "Although both Jefferson and Adams denied the miracles of the Bible and the divinity of Christ, Adams always retained a respect for the religiosity of people that Jefferson never had; in fact, Jefferson tended in private company to mock religious feelings."
who was the declaration of independence written by It was drafted by The Committee of Five, whose members included John Adams and Thomas Jefferson among others who signed it? Representatives of New Hampshire, New York, Connecticut and others when was it published? 4 July, 1776 was there a preamble? Yes, written by John Adams what was this person's profession? He was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat and writer. did he go to college? Yes, to Harvard College
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John Adams [SEP] Religious views
Adams at one point said that Christianity had originally been revelatory, but was being misinterpreted in the service of superstition, fraud, and unscrupulous power. Frazer (2004) notes that while he shared many perspectives with deists and often used deistic terminology, "Adams clearly was not a deist. Deism rejected any and all supernatural activity and intervention by God; consequently, deists did not believe in miracles or God's providence. ... Adams did believe in miracles, providence, and, to a certain extent, the Bible as revelation." Frazer argues that Adams's "theistic rationalism, like that of the other Founders, was a sort of middle ground between Protestantism and deism." In 1796, Adams denounced Thomas Paine's deistic criticisms of Christianity in "The Age of Reason", saying, "The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity, let the Blackguard Paine say what he will." But historian Gordon S.