[Taliesan]

You've always got to leave Jefferson out as an exception to everything. If it is Tuesday, he is a deist. On Wednesday, he is an atheist, but on weekends he likes Jesus but takes scissors to the gospels because he alone, of course, knows what sayings are the real ones.

[glorygirl]

"he alone, of course, knows what sayings are the real ones."

"Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone. I inquire after no man's, and trouble none with mine."

--Thomas Jefferson to Miles King, 1814. ME 14:198