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To: Ripliancum

I stand by my original claim. But perhaps our definitions differ. Noah Webster defined pagan as “one who
worships false gods”. What Jefferson opposed was the Divinity of Christ and the Trinity. But since God is a Trinity and Christ is Divine, this means Jefferson believed in a false god, when he believed. There may be some question whether at times he even believed in God at all. I don’t say this as an atheist. On the contrary, there are views other than those put forth by either Atheists or David Barton.


120 posted on 08/28/2010 7:11:26 PM PDT by grassboots.org (I'll Say It Again - The First Freedom is Life.)
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To: grassboots.org
Again we will disagree. Jefferson opposed the idea of what has become a traditional doctrine of the Trinity, because as he again said of what had become of creeds and such... men over time “have caricatured them into forms so inconceivable, as to shock reasonable thinkers....Happy in the prospect of a restoration of primitive Christianity,...”

I don't need to post the whole thing again.

You do know that our nation's president was, in fact, a student of scripture who attended church regularly, and was an active member of the Anglican Church, where he served on his local vestry or attachment to the church. He was married in church, sent his children and a nephew to a Christian school, and gave his money to support many different congregations and Christian causes.

You may call him a pagan if you wish, just because he didn't buy into the “trinity” and agreed with early Christian Fathers over evolving creeds, but that doesn't change who he is or what he believed in, or the fact that he was raised up by God to do the great work that he did.

123 posted on 08/28/2010 9:37:45 PM PDT by Ripliancum ("As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free")
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