Religious Affiliations of U.S. Presidents

Name the religious affiliation/belief most closely associated with the U.S. presidents listed. All information according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_affiliations_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States

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President(s)	Religious Affiliation/Denomination
Warren Harding, Harry Truman, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton	Baptist
James Polk, William McKinley, George W. Bush, Ulysses S. Grant	Methodist
Martin Van Buren, Theodore Roosevelt	Dutch Reformed
James Garfield, Lyndon Johnson	Disciples of Christ
Calvin Coolidge	Congregationalist
Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon	Quaker

President(s)	Religious Affiliation/Denomination
John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Millard Fillmore, William Howard Taft	Unitarian
Barack Obama, Rutherford Hayes, Andrew Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson	Unaffiliated/Unspecified Protestant/Unclear
John F. Kennedy, Joe Biden	Roman Catholic
Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan, Dwight Eisenhower, Woodrow Wilson, Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, James Buchanan, Andrew Jackson	Presbyterian
George Washington, James Madison, James Monroe, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, Chester A. Arthur, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush	Episcopalian

Level 70

Aug 23, 2021

Tried "Church of Christ" for LBJ... close as I could get.

Level 65

Aug 23, 2021

I can add that as a type-in because you are correct that it seems fairly close denominationally

Level 39

Aug 27, 2021

Thank you

Level 79

Aug 23, 2021

Yeah sure...Trump is a Presbyterian...

Level 65

Aug 23, 2021

The quiz is based on what they publicly claim. I have no way of verifying their personal convictions

Level 53

Aug 23, 2021

Yeah sure...Obama was a Christian...

Level 65

Aug 23, 2021

The quiz is based on what they publicly claim. I have no way of verifying their personal convictions, although I would advise you to do more research if this a reference to conspiracy theories related to him being a secret Muslim, which I am fairly certain he is not.

Level 87

Aug 23, 2021

There's a whole book by an Evangelical author, Stephen Mansfield, "The Faith of Barack Obama" you can read to learn about his religious beliefs.

Level 56

Dec 9, 2022

I'm pretty sure Obama's a Catholic, not a Christian 😂

Level 85

Aug 23, 2021

Dutch Reformed, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist are more or less the same -- the difference is the country of origin (the Netherlands, Scotland, England)

Level 65

Aug 23, 2021

Theologically similar, yes, but with enough differences in history to be of interest in differentiating. It's interesting to consider Calvin Coolidge's Puritan ancestors, the Dutch ancestry of the Roosevelts and Van Buren, and the Scottish roots of some of the Presbyterians.

Level 64

Aug 23, 2021

Technically, Jefferson can be considered Episcopalian. Although he developed unorthodox beliefs, he was baptized and raised in the Church of England (which became the Episcopal Church in the US after the American Revolution). He never cut ties with the Episcopal Church, by his own accounts he attended far more regularly than he's given credit for, and supported the church financially until his death. Deism is a philosophy, not a religious organization.

Level 65

Aug 23, 2021

Point taken about deism being more of a philosophy than anything, but I'm not sure I can fully consider him Episcopalian. Being baptized and raised in the Church hardly tells us anything about one's religious beliefs in colonial Virginia, and being a Church member was a prerequisite for serving in the House of Burgesses. He refused to participate as a godparent in baptisms because he disagreed with the dogma of the trinity, and although he may have attended Episcopal services in his lifetime, there's no denying that the Jefferson Bible is very opposed to Episcopalian theology by rejecting the divinity of Jesus and the trinity. As he once put it, he was in a sect by himself. I will put him in the other/unaffiliated category. By writing his own version of the Bible, we do have a pretty good understanding of his personal theology.

Level 64

Aug 23, 2021

You're right about that; my main point was exactly that affiliation and belief are two entirely different things, and affiliation implies membership or at least committed participation. He did indeed refuse to serve as a godparent due to not being able to affirm belief in the Trinity, although more is made of the "Jefferson Bible" than he ever intended. It was a personal study, something he never intended to be made public, an attempt to pare down the Bible to the words of Jesus and nothing else. He actually cut passages from Bibles and pasted them into a blank book to create it, so I'm not sure it's correct to say he "wrote" it. Nevertheless, I agree that it raises serious doubts about his orthodoxy (and as a Christian myself, I do not like that he did it!). Thanks for your response!

Level 71

Aug 24, 2021

No Atheists? Well, tbh I wasn't surprised.. The USA is the Iran of the West..

Level 69

Sep 6, 2023

Yeah sure, buddy