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To: Greg or e who wrote (45418)	1/23/2014 4:57:22 PM
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"Jefferson believed in God and regularly attended Church." Quit digging! Jefferson believed Jesus was a man--NOT a God. He did NOT believe Jesus was Divine. If that is the Christianity you wish to claim for Jefferson-have at it! Jefferson does not anywhere support Christian ideas of supernaturalism or Holiness or MAGICAL THINKING! He was a rationalist. Take a look at how Luther (the epitome of a Christian) viewed Reason, and you will remark the difference between Jefferson and every Christian you have ever known or dreamed about! Jefferson was a MAN OF REASON who grounded morality in REASON!

To: Greg or e who wrote (45418)	1/23/2014 6:24:54 PM
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1823 April 11. (Jefferson to John Adams). "The truth is that the greatest enemies to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them, who have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely incomprehensible, and without any foundation in his genuine words. 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 Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away all this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human errors.