mcly.15.08.23 eight years ago
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Jefferson didn't buy all the miracles reported by the Old Testament. Many of us don't. He also said the Moral Code of Jesus was the most sublime known to mankind. and he plainly said he was a Christian.
More from the rational theist Thomas Jefferson:
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#111 Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity.
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782
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#111 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 be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerve in the brain of Jupiter. But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors. -Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823 :
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#101 Thomas Jefferson:
"The Christian god is a three headed monster, cruel, vengeful, and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites. ā¢ā¢ā¢ā¢ When we see religion split into so many thousands of sects, and I may say Christianity itself divided into it's thousands also, who are disputing, anathematizing, and where the laws permit, burning and torturing one another for abstractions which no one of them understand, and which are indeed beyond the comprehension of the human mind, into which of the chambers of this Bedlam would a man wish to thrust himself. ā¢ā¢ā¢ā¢ The sum of all religion as expressed by its best preacher, "fear god and love thy neighbor,' contains no mystery, needs no explanation - but this wont do. It gives no scope to make dupes; priests could not live by it." ..........Letter to George Logan, November 12, 1816
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#101 "Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house." ..........To Benjamin Waterhouse, Jun. 26, 1822
Jeffersonā was not a Christian because the Bible was not Holy and Jesus was a man - never God / no virgin birth / no rise from the dead / no sacrifice as son of god for humanityās salvationn from sin. None of that ādungā concealing diamonds. His political opponents called him an atheist.
Rational theists were called atheists in those days by believers in Christ as a means to salvation from going to hell.
These ministers publicly vilified Thomas Jefferson as an anti-religious atheist who was unfit to hold the highest office in the land. Sermon upon sermon was published by layperson and cleric alike that sought to prove beyond doubt Jeffersonās infidelity.
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