“What a fantastic American History Teacher he could be”
You must not have watched the Dead Sea Scrolls video or read the “defense” of Beck. Beck distorts history to promote his religion. Sadly, evangelicals like David Barton have done the same when they have tried to portray ALL the founders as Christians. Jefferson was a pagan.
And front door Mormons do the same as Beck, try to sound like an evangelical, until you call them on it. The whole Dead Sea Scrolls thing was to slander the Church. He can no longer claim ignorance. It is deliberate.
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Jefferson wasn't a pagan, he just didn't buy into what he viewed as the evolving theology that Christianity had become over the millennia.
Said Jefferson:
“The religion builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticisms, fancies, and falsehoods, have caricatured them into forms so inconceivable, as to shock reasonable thinkers....Happy in the prospect of a restoration of primitive Christianity, I must leave to younger persons to encounter and lop off the false branches which have been engrafted into it by the mythologists of the middle and modern ages.”
(Jefferson’s Complete Works, vol 7, pp 210, 257)
If one has done some research into the Mormon history there were overtones in his speech and cetain guests today of that...which I expected there would be...after all he is accountable to those of the faith he practices. I’m certain LDS supported this event quite well.
I am cautious when it comes to any who attempt to unite all faiths...for there is a push to do so worldwide and that not for the good. So wise to keep one eye open....but I think he did a fair job af keeping Mormonism out of this event and that was a good thing.