That’s not true. The idea that he was a “deist” is incorrect. His now infamous “seperation of church and state” letter was written to someone of a certain denomination who was afraid that Jefferson was going to impose his own (Christian) denomination on the nation at the expense of others.
I love how the left uses Jefferson’s above mentioned letter against us while ignoring his 17,000 some odd other letters.
Jefferson was not a Christian believer. In fact, he edited his own copy of the Gospels which removed all the references to miracles and the deity of Christ.
As for the “separation of church and state”, that’s another issue. But it’s really not relevant, as Jefferson wasn’t even in the country when the Constitution was drafted.
I love how the left uses Jefferson’s above mentioned letter against us while ignoring his 17,000 some odd other letters.
Thomas Jefferson was a deist (as was Madison, and perhaps Washington and Franklin as well). Had he lived after Darwin he would probably have been an atheist.
True, he considered himself a chrstian, in the sense of admiring J*sus as a great moral philosopher. He rejected the supernatural, and orthodox chrstianity of any form demands the supernatural (though it seems to have forgotten that lately).