To: PROLIFE who wrote (733656 ) 3/22/2006 4:45:13 PM From: Kevin Rose Read Replies (1) | Respond to Yes, Jefferson followed the teachings of Jesus Christ, but he was disdainful of a lot of Christian 'add ons':"But the greatest of all reformers of the depraved religion of his own country, was Jesus of Nazareth. Abstracting what is really his from the rubbish in which it is buried, easily distinguished by its lustre from the dross of his biographers, and as separable from that as the diamond from the dunghill, we have the outlines of a system of the most sublime morality which has ever fallen from the lips of man. The establishment of the innocent and genuine character of this benevolent morality, and the rescuing it from the imputation of imposture, which has resulted fro artificial systems, invented by ultra-Christian sects (The immaculate conception of Jesus, his deification, the creation of the world by him, his miraculous powers, his resurrection and visible ascension, his corporeal presence in the Eucharist, the Trinity; original sin, atonement, regeneration, election, orders of the Hierarchy, etc.) is a most desirable object. But look at the history and progression of the USA up to now, and you will find it full of Christian men and women in our history, and so America went. From the Presidents, to congress, to the Supreme Court Justices.
