BTTT
For this, he will be banned from public school. Actually, many people claim he was a deist.
Happy Thanksgiving bump.
Either way, we need to remember that this feast was all about thanking God for what they had been provided.
On Thanksgiving Day 2005, thank God for modern technology, which has made it possible for us to have direct access to the prolific writings of Washington, Madison, the Adamses, Jefferson, Franklin, and the signers of our Constitution!
About the time that the "thought police" believed they had expunged from ordinary public libraries and public schools the books and writings of the Founders, along comes a far more excellent and effective means of proliferating America's Founding ideas--the Internet. This technology has enabled generations who might never have traveled to a distant library, searched through dusty stacks, and found the actual words of the Founders themselves, to read from original documents and texts.
Take, for instance, these words of Thomas Jefferson, in his Letter To Rev. Jared Sparks, 4 November 1820 (L&B 15:288):
"I hold the precepts of Jesus, as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent, and sublime which have ever been preached to man. . . . The religion of Jesus is founded in the Unity of God, and this principle chiefly, gave it triumph over the rabble of heathen gods then acknowledged. Thinking men of all nations rallied readily to the doctrine of one only God, and embraced it with the pure morals which Jesus inculcated. If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, truth will prevail over fanaticism, and the genuine doctrines of Jesus, so long perverted by His pseudo-priests, will again be restored to their original purity. This reformation will advance with the other improvements of the human mind, but too late for me to witness it."
And, To Doctor Benjamin Waterhouse, 26 June 1822 (L&B 15:383-5):
"The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend all to the happiness of man.
1.. That there is only one God, and He all perfect.
2.. That there is a future state of rewards and punishment.
3.. That to love God with all thy heart and thy neighbor as thyself, is the sum of religion."
After a comparison with the his understanding of the doctrines of Calvin, Jefferson concluded:
"Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christian. I rejoice that in this blessed country of free inquiry and belief, which has surrendered its creed and conscience to neither kings nor priests, the genuine doctrine of one only God is reviving, and I trust that there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian."
Of course, these are only a few of Jefferson's words that are never quoted by the Radical Left, who only use his single phrase from a letter to the Danbury Baptists which they have misappropriated in their battle to exclude discussions of religious matters from the public square.
Nothing at the link, but a great statement at the synopsis from Ol’ Ben.
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