Thomas Jefferson on Christianity and Religion


	Thomas Jefferson on Christianity and Religion

AcesLucky

6-11-2008 8:25 AM

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religion, thomas jefferson, politics, atheism, freethought, agnostic, founding father, god, christianity, bible

AcesLucky says:

Thoughts of another founding father.

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6-11-2008 8:49 AM

homemadesoap

This is really deep stuff. Words to make you think though.

6-11-2008 10:49 AM

alanocu

"A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit."
Thomas Jefferson

6-11-2008 10:52 AM

alanocu

The Religious Views of our Presidents (partial): http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/franklin_steiner/presidents.html

6-14-2008 6:03 PM

syncopath

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,
that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Thomas Jefferson

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  Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common
  law.
  <P>-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10,
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  What is it men cannot be made to believe!
  <P>-Thomas Jefferson to Richard Henry Lee, April 22, 1786. (on
  the British regarding America, but quoted here for its universal
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  In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile
  to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting
  his abuses in return for protection to his own.
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  Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against
  absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder,
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  And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus,
  by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will
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