“Have you ever found in history, one single example of a Nation thoroughly corrupted that was afterwards restored to virtue? … And without virtue, there can be no political liberty… I believe no effort in favour of virtue is lost…”
June 28, 1813
John Adams: Second President of the United States.
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion…”
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Oct 11, 1798
John Adams: 2nd President of the United States,
Vice President under George Washington,
Author of 3 volume “A Defense of the Constitution of the Government of the United States”.
Signer of the Declaration of Independence.
“My views… are the result of a life of inquiry and reflection, and very different from the anti-Christian system imputed to me by those who know nothing of my opinions. To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines in preference to all others…” April 21, 1803
“I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man…” Nov 4, 1820
Thomas Jefferson: 3rd President of the United States, author, architect, educator, scientist, and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”
Benjamin Franklin, April 17, 1787

It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians;
not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.
Patrick Henry: Commander-in-Chief of the Virginia Militia, member of Continental Congress, member of Virginia General Assembly and House of Burgesses. Five-time governor of Virginia.
“I have carefully examined the evidences of the
Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man.”
April 1802
Alexander Hamilton, a “Founding Father” who authored 51 of 85 Federalist Papers (the defense of the U.S. Constitution) and was the First Secretary of the Treasury.
Dan Brown’s book The Da Vinci Code has sold over 40 million copies. Through his novel, he has questioned the traditional origin and view of Christianity.
Dan Brown presents an alternate view that includes:
- That Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene who had a child who escaped to France.
- Mary Magdalene was to head the church, but Peter and the other disciples took over.
- Jesus was turned into God - in order to protect the patriarchal system, the Catholic Church along with the rest of Christianity has worked together to maintain this 2000-year cover up.
- The secret of Jesus True Identity is maintained by a group known as the “Priory of Sion”, that has existed since 1099.
- The Da Vinci Code also claims that the Church repressed certain earlier books from being in the Bible
- That it borrowed many of its ideas, such as a resurrected savior and Sunday worship from pagan religions.
Get solid answers to this alternate view from a Christian perspective with New Testament Historian Mike Licona.
The Da Vinci Code Seminar Video with Mike Licona