According to biographer David McCullough, "as his family and friends knew, Adams was both a devout Christian, and an independent thinker, and he saw no conflict in that."
通过传记作家David McCullough记载，“他的家人和朋友知道，亚当斯同时是一个虔诚的基督徒，也是一个独立的思想者，他并未觉得这有什么冲突”。