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Originally Posted by Infinite_Loser
Jefferson called himself a Christian
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He also hacked the hell out of the New Testament to remove the parts he considered to be later additions. It's completely misleading to say that Jefferson was a Christian in the modern sense. The Jeffersonian bible has little in common with modern practice.
Since Jefferson was the chap who wrote the draft of the Declaration of Independence, it seems a little disingenuous to claim that his inclusion of the vague word Creator indicates Judeo-Christian principles.