Jefferson, Adams, Franklin were Deists....
what is a Deist, in your opinion?
the same Jefferson who wrote:
My views... are the result of a life of inquiry and reflection, and very different from the anti-christian system imputed to me by those who know nothing of my opinions. To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines in preference to all others...
(April 21,1803 in a letter to Dr, Benjamin Rush, see The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, vol. X. p. 379. BArnesMayo, America's God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations, William J. Federer, page 326. |
