{"id":223,"date":"2008-01-29T15:40:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T20:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=223"},"modified":"2008-01-29T15:40:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T20:40:01","slug":"an-historical-footnote-eisenhowers-baptism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"An Historical Footnote: Eisenhower’s Baptism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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[digg-reddit-me]During the 1952 campaign for the presidency, word leaked<\/a> that Dwight D. Eisenhower had never been baptized. Though he considered himself a Christian, he had never been inducted into a faith. He responded at the time by saying he would be baptized when he was able to get around to it – probably after his election. And so, on February 1, 1953<\/a>, twelve days after his Inauguration, President Eisenhower was baptized, the only president to be baptized in office, and formally “staked down”<\/a> his faith at the National Presbyterian Church on Washington’s Connecticut Avenue.<\/p>\n

It apparently was an age in which religion was taken seriously – but not in the dogmatic way it is today. After all, Eisenhower, of “Oh, goddammit, we forgot the silent prayer” fame<\/a>, was able to be judged not on his private religious acts, but on his public record.<\/p>\n

It might be nice to reintroduce that as the standard again.<\/p>\n

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