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Which Type of Christians are the USA Presidents?

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Which type of Christians are the Presidents of the USA? by Jonathan. Free PDF Link:

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We don’t Preach another Gospel but only within what is even considered as possibilities from among USA Presidents even whom majority of Christians voted them to office. Fact: There have been no Adventist, Anabaptist, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, Latter Day Saint, or Pentecostal presidents of the USA to date (2024). Note this is done like a compilation style as I did not authour the details.

Which type of Christians

are

The Presidents of the USA?

by

Jonathan Ramachandran

1.0  Questions to Ponder

After believing in the “Prosperity Gospel, Law of Attraction and Power of Positive Words or even God makes them the head and not tail” claims type of beliefs but yet to date, the irony is this: In probably No. 1 Christian country of all time, there is still not one “Pentecostal President of USA”?

I mean other denominations may not believe in such earthly success as proof of truth and may not pray for that as a sign of God’s endorsement but yet they have become presidents of the USA and this includes even the strangely close to heretical Unitarians who deny Trinity and embrace Universalism.

So in countries where Pentecostals are majority, they show the reverse being leaders in smaller, weaker and less Christian countries, right? Let God Decide which denominations are more accurate topic by topic (so don’t praise any pastor or denomination calling them “good” including myself or yourself yet since we don’t know which doctrines and prophecy interpretations are more correct or accurate until after we die) but “Pentecostalism” was born in USA around 1900 but yet not having one President in USA seems interesting, isn’t it?

Is all this by God’s Will or FreeWill?

My point is simple: In smaller countries, some Pentecostals scare others by saying that if you are “not speaking in tongues” (their definition of “born again” for some), you are “not saved” and so are the Presidents of USA all “unsaved” since none of them are Pentecostal?

Also, how come among the No. 1 Christian Presidents of the most powerful country on earth (the USA), none of them were gifted by God to see the Pentecostal faith as truth? Strange isn’t it? I write like this because a lot of average Pentecostals don’t know such facts and so “some” (not all) of their pastors may scare their own members by saying your life will be destroyed, you won’t be successful and even that you will go to hell if you’re not Pentecostal but here we see the No. 1 President of USA position all held by non-Pentecostals including possible heretics like Unitarian too. So similarly, the Pentecostals show of political position, money-power, religious conversion numbers or anything else in smaller weaker countries is no big deal in comparison to USA here, right?

Personally I don’t believe in any Prosperity Gospel nor conversion numbers as sign of truth for which I think the earliest Chiliasm Church Fathers are most accurate followed by Protestant Founders Luther, Calvin and Wesley. No other leaders influence me as much and which is more accurate, let God Decide one day. So no point in boycotting me as I have shown that even these great Christians among the Presidents of the USA are not Pentecostal and share similar possibilities with me from Calvinism’s no women pastor to Universalism (non Elect Salvation is a weaker version) as I hold it as possibility not doctrine due to early Christian evidence as detailed in previous pdfs  and I believe most of these USA Presidents (if not all) are saved, right? Shalom.

I repeat: Why all these is important? Doctrinal accuracy shines in higher heavens level compared to lower stars level for converting many as Daniel 12:3 prophesies and Church Fathers taught likewise. So nothing to be worried about since if you turned out more right on more doctrines, then you will shine brighter as a Christian and vice versa, fair, right? Only when we take into account all these we can say that we’re fulfilling the “Great Commission” fully because Christ did not just say “make disciples” (i.e. converts) but also Said in this same Bible Verse “20teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you;” (Matthew 28:20, NKJV).

Motto: Don’t study and write only when it’s for getting a degree, masters or phD but even if it’s aimed at none of these. Will we study Bible, Church History and related fields if there’s no money nor certificate to be earned? Therefore, this paper is written formally (while my other pdfs written in an informal style in free downloadable books*) to demonstrate personal lifelong learning and promote critical thinking in these areas. The things we do for money are for a living but the things we do for free (Charity Doctrine in Gospel things too) reveals our heart as Christ Said, “33“Sell your possessions and give to charity; make yourselves money belts that do not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near nor does a moth destroy. 34For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Luke 12:33 – 34, NASB). For those who say otherwise, ask them back this, does the Love of God only do things when indirect love offerings, money through paid courses or degrees are to be earned? Which Bible Verse? This is not to brag around but to put forth a point to think about since these words judge me too. Thank you for reading this!

*Free download links can be found in last pages of free pdf below including my music compositions (as of 13 August 2024) of this “Non Elect Salvation Possibility”:
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My #ORCID link: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-4669-1077 (more free Gospel related thoughts and research pdfs and their links in “works” section).

Note: Regarding font styles, spacings and some other rules, these are all man-made and it’s good to follow when submitting to an institution or journal but are of no big deal when written in a free speech manner like this.

2.0 Table of Contents

Questions to Ponder .…………………………………………………………………. 1     

Religious Affiliation of USA Presidents by Denomination .………………….…… 4

Faith of the Presidents of the USA – Details ………………………..…………..… 5

Which denominations never had a USA President? ……………………….…… 19

Christianity in USA Overview Statistics …….…………………………………….. 21

Born Again (Pentecostal) vs Not Born Again (non – Pentecostal) in USA …… 23

3.0 Religious Affiliation of USA Presidents by Denomination

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_affiliations_of_presidents_of_the_United_States

Note: This write up is done in a leisurely manner and so most of its content are cut and paste which is so easy to verify because they are historical facts.

4.0 Faith of the Presidents of the USA – Details

[Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_affiliations_of_presidents_of_the_United_States ]

List of presidents with details on their religious affiliation

For each president, the formal affiliation at the time of his presidency is listed first, with other affiliations listed after. Further explanation follows if needed, as well as notable detail.

  1. George Washington – Episcopalian and Deist[25]

Main article: George Washington and religion

  1. John Adams – Unitarian[26]
    • The Adamses were originally members of the state-supported Congregational churches in New England.[27] By 1800, most Congregationalist churches in Boston had Unitarian preachers teaching the strict unity of God, the subordinate nature of Christ, and salvation by character.[28][29][30] Adams himself preferred Unitarian preachers, but he was opposed to Joseph Priestley‘s sympathies with the French Revolution, and would attend other churches if the only nearby Congregational/Unitarian one was composed of followers of Priestley.[31]
    • Adams described himself as a “church going animal” in a letter to Benjamin Rush.[32][27]
  2. Thomas Jefferson – None specified, likely Deist[33][34]

Main article: Thomas Jefferson and religion

  1. Jefferson was raised Anglican and served as a vestryman prior to the American Revolution,[35] but as an adult he did not hold to the tenets of this church.[33]
  2. Modern Unitarian Universalists consider Jefferson’s views to be very close to theirs. The Famous UUs website[36] says:

Like many others of his time (he died just one year after the founding of institutional Unitarianism in America), Jefferson was a Unitarian in theology, though not in church membership. He never joined a Unitarian congregation: there were none near his home in Virginia during his lifetime. He regularly attended Joseph Priestley‘s Pennsylvania church when he was nearby, and said that Priestley’s theology was his own, and there is no doubt Priestley should be identified as Unitarian. Jefferson remained a member of the Episcopal congregation near his home, but removed himself from those available to become godparents, because he was not sufficiently in agreement with the Trinitarian theology. His work, the Jefferson Bible, was Unitarian in theology …

  1. In a letter to Benjamin Rush prefacing his “Syllabus of an Estimate of the Merit of the Doctrines of Jesus”, Jefferson wrote:

In some of the delightful conversations with you, in the evenings of 1798–99, and which served as an anodyne to the afflictions of the crisis through which our country was then laboring, the Christian religion was sometimes our topic; and I then promised you, that one day or other, I would give you my views of it. They are the result of a life of inquiry & reflection, and very different from that 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 he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence; & believing he never claimed any other.[37]

  1. In a letter to John Adams dated August 22, 1813, Jefferson named Joseph Priestley and Conyers Middleton as the inspirations for his religious beliefs, writing that:

You are right in supposing, in one of yours, that I had not read much of Priestley’s Predestination, his No-soul system, or his controversy with Horsley. but I have read his Corruptions of Christianity, & Early opinions of Jesus, over and over again; and I rest on them, and on Middleton’s writings, especially his letters from Rome, and to Waterland, as the basis of my own faith. these writings have never been answered, nor can be answered, by quoting historical proofs, as they have done. for these facts therefore I cling to their learning, so much superior to my own.[38]

  1. James Madison – Episcopalian and Deist[39]
    • Although Madison tried to keep a low profile in regards to religion, he seemed to hold religious opinions, like many of his contemporaries, that were closer to deism or Unitarianism in theology than conventional Christianity. He was raised in the Church of England and attended Episcopal services, despite his personal disputes with the theology.[40]
  2. James Monroe – Episcopalian
    • Monroe was raised in a family that belonged to the Church of England when it was the state church in Virginia, and as an adult attended Episcopal churches.[41]
    • “When it comes to Monroe’s … thoughts on religion”, Bliss Isely comments in his The Presidents: Men of Faith, “less is known than that of any other President.” Monroe burned much of his correspondence with his wife, and no letters survive in which he discusses his religious beliefs; nor did his friends, family or associates write about his beliefs. Letters that do survive, such as ones written on the occasion of the death of his son, contain no discussion of religion.[41]
    • Some authors conclude that Monroe’s writings show evidence of “deistic tendencies”.[41]
  3. John Quincy Adams – Unitarian[42]
    • Adams’s religious views shifted over the course of his life. In college and early adulthood he preferred trinitarian theology, and from 1818 to 1848 he served as vice president of the American Bible Society.[43] However, as he grew older his views became more typically Unitarian, though he rejected some of the views of Joseph Priestley and the Transcendentalists.[43]
    • He was a founding member of the First Unitarian Church of Washington (D.C.).[43] However he regularly attended Presbyterian and Episcopal services as well.[43]
    • Towards the end of his life, he wrote, “I reverence God as my creator. As creator of the world. I reverence him with holy fear. I venerate Jesus Christ as my redeemer; and, as far as I can understand, the redeemer of the world. But this belief is dark and dubious.”[43]
  4. Andrew Jackson – Presbyterian[44]
    • He became a member of the Presbyterian Church about a year after leaving the presidency.[45]
  5. Martin Van Buren – Dutch Reformed[46]
  6. William Henry Harrison – Episcopalian[50]
  7. John Tyler – Episcopalian[52]
    • Although affiliated with the Episcopal church, he did not take “a denominational approach to God.”[53] Tyler was a strong supporter of religious tolerance and separation of church and state.
  8. James K. Polk – Methodist[54]
    • Polk came from a Presbyterian upbringing but was not baptized as a child, due to a dispute with the local Presbyterian minister in rural North Carolina. Polk’s father and grandfather were Deists, and the minister refused to baptize James unless his father affirmed Christianity, which he would not do.[55][56] Polk had a conversion experience at a Methodist camp meeting when he was thirty-eight, and thereafter considered himself Methodist. Nevertheless, he continued to attend Presbyterian services with his wife, though he went to the local Methodist chapel when she was ill or out of town. On his deathbed, he summoned the Rev. John B. McFerrin, who had converted him years before, to baptize him.[54]
  9. Zachary Taylor – Episcopalian[57]
    • Although raised an Episcopalian and married to a devout Episcopalian, he never became a full communicant member in the church.[57]
  10. Millard Fillmore – Unitarian[58]
  11. Franklin Pierce – Episcopalian[59]
  12. James Buchanan – Presbyterian[60]
    • Buchanan, raised a Presbyterian, attended and supported various churches throughout his life. He joined the Presbyterian Church after leaving the presidency.[61]
  13. Abraham Lincoln – None specified[62]

Main article: Abraham Lincoln and religion

  1. Life before the presidency
    • Some believe that for much of his life, Lincoln was a Deist.[63]
    • Rev. Dr. Phineas D. Gurley, pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian church in Washington D.C., which Lincoln attended with his wife when he attended any church, never claimed a conversion. According to D. James Kennedy in his booklet, “What They Believed: The Faith of Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln”, “Dr. Gurley said that Lincoln had wanted to make a public profession of his faith on Easter Sunday morning. But then came Ford’s Theater.” (p. 59, Published by Coral Ridge Ministries, 2003) Though this is possible, we have no way of verifying the truth of the report. The chief evidence against it is that Dr. Gurley, so far as we know, never mentioned it publicly. The determination to join, if accurate, would have been extremely newsworthy. It would have been reasonable for Dr. Gurley to have mentioned it at the funeral in the White House, in which he delivered the sermon which has been preserved.[64] The only evidence we have is an affidavit signed more than sixty years later by Mrs. Sidney I. Lauck, then a very old woman. In her affidavit signed under oath in Essex County, New Jersey, February 15, 1928, she said, “After Mr. Lincoln’s death, Dr. Gurley told me that Mr. Lincoln had made all the necessary arrangements with him and the Session of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church to be received into the membership of the said church, by confession of his faith in Christ, on the Easter Sunday following the Friday night when Mr. Lincoln was assassinated.” Mrs. Lauck was, she said, about thirty years of age at the time of the assassination.
    • John Remsburg, president of the American Secular Union, argued against claims of Lincoln’s conversion in his book Six Historic Americans (1906). He cites several of Lincoln’s close associates:
      • The man who stood nearest to President Lincoln at Washington – nearer than any clergyman or newspaper correspondent – was his private secretary, Col. John G. Nicolay. In a letter dated May 27, 1865, Colonel Nicolay says: “Mr. Lincoln did not, to my knowledge, in any way change his religious ideas, opinions, or beliefs from the time he left Springfield to the day of his death.”
      • After his assassination Mrs. Lincoln said: “Mr. Lincoln had no hope and no faith in the usual acceptance of these words.” His lifelong friend and executor, Judge David Davis, affirmed the same: “He had no faith in the Christian sense of the term.” His biographer, Colonel Lamon, intimately acquainted with him in Illinois, and with him during all the years that he lived in Washington, says: “Never in all that time did he let fall from his lips or his pen an expression which remotely implied the slightest faith in Jesus as the son of God and the Savior of men.”[65]
  2. Andrew Johnson – No formal affiliation[66]
    • He accompanied his wife Eliza McCardle Johnson to Methodist services sometimes, belonged to no church himself, and sometimes attended Catholic services—remarking favorably that there was no reserved seating.[67]
  3. Ulysses S. Grant – Methodist[11]
    • Grant was never baptized into any church, though he accompanied his wife Julia Grant to Methodist services. Many sources list his religious affiliation as Methodist based on a Methodist minister’s account of a deathbed conversion. He did leave a note for his wife in which he hoped to meet her again in a better world.
    • In his 1875 State of the Union address, during conflicts over Catholic parochial schooling, Grant called for a constitutional amendment that would require all states to establish free public schools while “forbidding the teaching in said schools of religious, atheistic, or pagan tenets; and prohibiting the granting of any school funds or school taxes … for the benefit … of any religious sect or denomination.”[68] The proposed Blaine Amendment to the Constitution followed.
  4. Rutherford B. Hayes – Unspecified Protestant
    • Hayes came from a Presbyterian family, but attended Methodist schools as a youth.[69]
    • Many sources list him as Methodist; in general, however, it is agreed that he held himself to be a Christian, but of no specific church.[70]
    • In his diary entry for May 17, 1890, he states: “Writing a few words for Mohonk Negro Conference, I find myself using the word Christian. I am not a subscriber to any creed. I belong to no church. But in a sense, satisfactory to myself and believed by me to be important, I try to be a Christian, or rather I want to be a Christian and to help do Christian work.”[71]
    • Hayes’ wife, Lucy, was a Methodist, a temperance advocate, and deeply opposed to slavery; he generally attended church with her.[70]
  5. James Garfield – Churches of Christ[72]
    • He was baptized at age eighteen.[72]
    • Through his twenties, Garfield preached and held revival meetings, though he was never formally a minister within the church.[72]
    • Charles J. Guiteau attempted to assassinate Garfield at a sermon.[73]
  6. Chester A. Arthur – Episcopalian[74]
  7. Grover Cleveland – Presbyterian[76]
  8. Benjamin Harrison – Presbyterian[77]
    • Harrison became a church elder, and taught Sunday school.
  9. Grover Cleveland – Presbyterian
  10. William McKinley – Methodist[78]
    • Early in life, he planned to become a Methodist minister.[79]
    • James Rusling, a McKinley supporter, related a story that McKinley had addressed a church delegation and had stated that one of the objectives of the Spanish–American War was “to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them”.[80] Recent historians have judged this account unreliable, especially in light of implausible[vague] statements Rusling made about Lincoln’s religion.[81][82]
    • McKinley is the only president to include exclusively Christian language in his Thanksgiving Day proclamation.[83]
  11. Theodore Roosevelt – Dutch Reformed[84]
    • Roosevelt always stated that he was Dutch Reformed; however, he attended Episcopal churches where there was no Reformed church nearby. (His second wife Edith was Episcopalian from birth.)[84] As there was no Dutch Reformed church in Oyster Bay, New York, he attended Christ Church Oyster Bay when in residence there, and it was in that church that his funeral was held.[84]
    • His mother was Presbyterian and as a child he attended Presbyterian churches with her.[85]
  12. William Howard Taft – Unitarian[86]
    • Before becoming president, Taft was offered the presidency of Yale University, at that time affiliated with the Congregationalist Church; Taft turned the post down, saying, “I do not believe in the divinity of Christ.”[87]
    • Taft’s beliefs were the subject of some controversy, and in 1908 he found it necessary to refute a rumor that he was an atheist.[5]
    • During his presidency he attended All Souls Church[86]
  13. Woodrow Wilson – Presbyterian[88]
    • Wilson’s father was a Presbyterian minister and professor of theology.[88]
    • Prior to being governor of New Jersey and president of the United States, Wilson served as president of Princeton University, which was at the time affiliated with the Presbyterian Church.[88]
  14. Warren G. Harding – Northern Baptist[89][90]
  15. Calvin Coolidge – Congregationalist[91][92]
    • Coolidge attended Edwards Congregational Church in Northampton, Massachusetts, which was affiliated with the National Council of Congregational Churches.
  16. Herbert Hoover – Quaker[93]
    • As Quakers customarily do not swear oaths, it was expected that Hoover would affirm the oath of office, and most sources state that he did so.[94][95] However, a Washington Post article dated February 27, 1929, stated that he planned to swear, rather than affirm, the oath.[96]
  17. Franklin D. Roosevelt – Episcopalian[97]
  18. Harry S. Truman – Baptist[98]
    • Truman kept his religious beliefs private and alienated some Baptist leaders by doing so.[99]
  19. Dwight D. Eisenhower – Presbyterian[14]
    • Eisenhower’s religious upbringing is the subject of some controversy, due to the conversion of his parents to the Bible Student movement, the forerunner of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, in the late 1890s. Originally, the family belonged to the River Brethren, a Mennonite sect.[14] According to the Eisenhower Presidential Library, there is no evidence that Eisenhower participated in either the Bible Student group or the Jehovah’s Witnesses, and there are records that show he attended Sunday school at a River Brethren church.[14]
    • Until he became president, Eisenhower had no formal church affiliation, a circumstance he attributed to the frequent moves demanded of an Army officer. He was baptized, confirmed, and became a communicant in the Presbyterian church in a single ceremony February 1, 1953, just 12 days after his first inauguration, the only president to undergo any of these rites while in office.[14]
    • Eisenhower was instrumental in the addition of the words “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954 (an act highly promoted by the Knights of Columbus), and the 1956 adoption of “In God We Trust” as the motto of the US, and its 1957 introduction on paper currency. He composed a prayer for his first inauguration, began his Cabinet meetings with silent prayer, and met frequently with a wide range of religious leaders while in office.[14]
    • His presidential library includes an inter-denominational chapel in which he, his wife Mamie, and his firstborn son (who died in childhood) are buried.
  20. John F. Kennedy – Roman Catholic[100]
    • Kennedy was the first Catholic president.
  21. Lyndon B. Johnson – Disciples of Christ[101]
  22. Richard M. Nixon – Quaker[102]
    • Contrary to Quaker custom, Nixon swore the oath of office at both of his inaugurations. He also engaged in military service, contrary to the Quaker doctrine of pacifism.
  23. Gerald R. Ford – Episcopalian[103]
  24. Jimmy Carter – Baptist[104]
  25. Ronald Reagan – Presbyterian[110]
    • Reagan’s father was Catholic,[111] but Reagan was raised in his mother’s Disciples of Christ denomination and was baptized there on September 21, 1922.[112] Nancy and Ronald Reagan were married in the Disciples of Christ “Little Brown Church” in Studio City, California on March 4, 1952. Beginning in 1963 Reagan generally attended Presbyterian church services at Bel Air Presbyterian Church, Bel-Air, California. During his presidency he rarely attended church services, due to the inconvenience to others in the congregation.[113] He became an official member of Bel Air Presbyterian after leaving the presidency. Reagan stated that he considered himself a “born-again Christian”.[110]
  26. George H. W. Bush – Episcopalian[114]
  27. Bill Clinton – Baptist[116]
    • Clinton, during his presidency, attended a Methodist church in Washington along with his wife Hillary Clinton, who is Methodist from childhood.[117]
  28. George W. Bush – Methodist[118]
    • Bush was raised in the Episcopal Church but converted to Methodism upon his marriage in 1977.[118]
    • Bush has been noted as one the most religious US presidents. He attributes his deep faith to a 1985 meeting with Billy Graham, an influential preacher in the evangelical movement, and researchers have debated his closeness to Evangelicals and his true religious views. Although considered an ally of the American evangelical movement in office, and claimed as an evangelical by some in the movement, Bush has never claimed to be born again and has not fully embraced standard evangelical doctrines. NBC News interviewed several theologians and colleagues of Bush, and their descriptions of his religious views ranged widely, including “mainstream evangelical with a higher-than-normal tolerance of dissent”, “conservative Christian [but] less doctrinaire than his faith would suggest”, ecumenical “mere Christian“, and “indigenous West Texas evangelical piety”.[119]
  29. Barack Obama – Unspecified Protestant[23]
  1. Donald Trump – Unspecified Protestant[24]
  2. Joe Biden – Roman Catholic[131]

5.0 Which denominations never had a USA President?

[Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_affiliations_of_presidents_of_the_United_States]

Religious affiliations can affect the electability of the presidents of the United States and shape their stances on policy matters and their visions of society and also how they want to lead it. While no president has ever openly identified as an atheist, Thomas Jefferson,[2] Abraham Lincoln,[3][4] and William Howard Taft[5] were speculated to be atheists by their opponents during political campaigns; in addition, a survey during the presidency of Donald Trump showed that 63% of Americans did not believe he was religious, despite his professed Christian affiliation.[6] Trump supporters have also circulated conspiracy theories that Barack Obama is a Muslim. Conversely, other presidents, such as Jimmy Carter, have used their faith as a defining aspect of their campaigns and tenure in office.[7]

Essentially all of the presidents can be characterized as Christians, at least by upbringing, though some were unaffiliated with any specific religious body. Mainline Protestants predominate, with Episcopalians and Presbyterians being the most prevalent. John F. Kennedy was the first Catholic president, and Joe Biden, the current president, is the second.

Formal affiliation

The pattern of religious adherence has changed dramatically over the course of United States history, so that the pattern of presidential affiliations is quite unrepresentative of modern membership numbers. For example, Episcopalians are extraordinarily well represented among the presidents compared to a current membership of about 2% of the population; this is partly because the Church of England, from which the Episcopal Church is derived, was the established church in some of the British Colonies (such as New York and Virginia) before the American Revolution. The Episcopal Church has been much larger previously, with its decline in membership occurring only in more recent decades.[8] 

The first seven presidents listed as Episcopalians were all from Virginia.

 Unitarians are also overrepresented, reflecting the importance of those colonial churches. Conversely, Baptists are underrepresented, a reflection of their quite recent expansion in numbers; the list includes only two Catholic presidents including the current president, although they are currently the largest single denomination.

There have been no Adventist, Anabaptist, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, Latter Day Saint, or Pentecostal presidents.

While many presidents did not formally join a church until quite late in life, there is a genre of tales of deathbed conversions. Biographers usually doubt these, though the baptism of James K. Polk is well documented.[9]

6.0 Christianity in USA Overview Statistics

Source: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-christian-countries

In terms of how many Christians reside in a nation, the United States leads the pack with approximately 230 million. Brazil also has a high number of Christians – over 180 million, to be exact.

Countries with the highest total number of Christians:

In terms of percentages of Christians compared to a nation’s population as a whole, the top spot is understandably claimed by Vatican City, the independent city state that is the headquarters of the Catholic Church. The Vatican’s roughly 825 citizens are all Christian, which gives it a percentage of 100%. In second place is Timor Leste (formerly East Timor). Of this island nation’s more than 1.1 million residents, approximately 99.1% are Christian. A full 98% of American’ Samoa‘s 70,000 residents practice Christianity, but it’s a U.S. territory rather than an independent country. Thus, third place falls to Romania, which is 98% Christian.

Countries with the highest percentage of Christians:

Compare: [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_denominations_by_number_of_members ]

Christianity is the largest religious group in the world, with an estimated 2.3 to 2.6 billion adherents in 2020.[3][4][5][6]

7.0 Born Again (Pentecostal) vs Not Born Again (non – Pentecostal) in USA

Please note that this is using a definition employed by Pentecostals. This does not mean that the “non-Pentecostals are going to Hell and are not born again” according to the Bible since that God alone will judge but proof of it is a repented lifestyle and there is no requirement of all Christians “speaking in tongues” as a “proof of being born again” according to this Verse in 1 Corinthians 12:30 below:

New International Version
Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret?

New Living Translation
Do we all have the gift of healing? Do we all have the ability to speak in unknown languages? Do we all have the ability to interpret unknown languages? Of course not!

English Standard Version
Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?

Berean Literal Bible
Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret?

King James Bible
Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

New King James Version
Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?

New American Standard Bible
All do not have gifts of healings, do they? All do not speak with tongues, do they? All do not interpret, do they?

Source: https://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/12-30.htm

Note: This Verse (1 Corinthians 12:30) is referring to the true speaking in tongues but in regard to the modern Pentecostal way of speaking in tongues, it’s very shady and the reason why I do not risk myself with it is already explained in a previous pdf titled “Risky – Speaking in Tongues or Non Elect Salvation Possibility” in link below:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VhA7KBjcg7JUAW9kPzUUFhaZuZSWXAPr/view?usp=sharing

Back to the statistics below (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestantism_in_the_United_States )

Last Statistics: Born Again vs Non-Born Again claim (but some “Born Again” claim may not be Pentecostal at all since they can identify by their own definition of it so this statistic part is a bit clumsy since it’s not a static definition. I mean even a Reformed Christian or Calvinist calls himself as Born Again but does not speak in tongues the modern Pentecostal way nor in any way at all!). Compare:

Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2021/12/14/about-three-in-ten-u-s-adults-are-now-religiously-unaffiliated/

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestantism_in_the_United_States   End.

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