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Originally posted by Bill O'Rights
<i> "The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter." -- Thomas Jefferson, third president and author of the Declaration of Independence, (letter to J. Adams April 11, 1823)
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.--Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, Dec. 6, 1813.
The whole history of these books [the Gospels] is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In the New Testament there is internal evidence that
parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills.--Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, January 24, 1814</i>
I don't see it.
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Why is that out of the
250+ Founding Fathers that had a significant role in creating this nation, only Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and James Madison are quoted? While Thomas Jefferson did not believe in the Bible and that Christ was the saviour of man, he does go on record as saying that the Christian Principles (not any specific Church mind you) are very good and lay a foundation for leading a good, moral life. Here's a few more Founding Fathers that you can look up. Robert Aitken, publisher of the
Pennsylvania Magazine which was a very pro-revolution publication, with contributors like Francis Hopkinson, the Rev. Dr. John Witherspoon, and Thomas Paine. Abraham Baldwin, considered the "Father of the Univ. of Georgia" was also a Congressman and a Senator. Richard Bassett, signer of the federal Constitution, Senator, and U.S. Circuit Judge. James Beattie (influencer of the FF, he lived in Scotland) wrote books that pleased many of the FF, and refuted the works of David Hume. Joseph Bloomfield, attorney, soldier, and public official, served as a Congressman. Elias Boudinot, studied law under Richard Stockton (a signer of the Declaration) Congressman who helped to frame the Bill of Rights. I could go on, and on and on about the many other Founding Fathers, but I don't want to make this post be one that goes on for forever. So don't just choose a few quotes out of 60+ works by Thomas Jefferson that are convenient to you, and don't just choose so few people who are convenient to you to support your case, when you have more than 12 and a half score people to choose from.