Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the third President of the United States and often credited as the author of the Declaration of Independence, though key portions of that document were simply taken from the Virginia Declaration of Rights.

Jefferson was a prominent architect, inventor and scientist. His presidency had significant failures, and is best known for doubling the area of the United States with the controversial Louisiana Purchase from France.

Though Jefferson did not describe his beliefs in that manner, many textbooks and online resources claim that he was a deist.

With regard to Christianity, Jefferson admired the ethical and moral teachings of Jesus, but did not believe in the divinity of Christ. He produced a compilation "The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth Extracted Textually from the Gospels," familiarly known as "The Jefferson Bible," in which he included the passages which he felt described Jesus' life and teachings, while omitting references to the miracles and to Jesus' divinity. In an 1803 letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush, he stated:

I then promised you that one day or other I would give you my views of [the Christian religion]. They are the result of a life of inquiry and reflection, and very different from that anti-Christian system imputed to me by those who know nothing of my opinions. To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed, but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to his doctrines in preference to all others, ascribing to himself every human excellence, and believing he never claimed any other.

"I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature.....Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion?To make half the world fools and half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the world." -- Thomas Jefferson Notes on the State of Virginia 1787 ^{reference needed References 3 and 4 do not authenticate the quote}

"And 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. But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors." –Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823

"If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may Sally be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." Reason is the tool to use to change opinions—not censorship." 1801 inaugural speech.

He was a tall man (6 foot 2 inches) and like George Washington, played Basketball after writing the Declaration of Independence. Because of his Christian humility, he was a poor orator though he was a great writer.

Jefferson also advocated State's rights in contrast to Federalism advocated by the leftist cannibalistic liberals like Adams and Alexander Hamilton. He founded the University of Virginia, which has now descended into a orgasmic unchristian orgy but is said by the liberal media to be a public ivy university. Some have alleged that Jefferson had sexual relations with his slave, Hemmings, who was 1/4 black. DNA evidence has not proved that Sally Hemmings was Jefferson's mistress. Only one of her descendants Eston Hemmings, is said to be a direct descendant of Jefferson through DNA evidence. However DNA evidence is only 99% accurate, Jefferson was a Christian and Christians never have sex outside of marriage, we have to believe this is a smear campaign by ultra liberal left who are trying to loosen our moral resolves and smear our founding fathers name. Jefferson was a great enemy of Alexander Hamilton, whose party, he hated as the party the Federalists drank tea every day and he was a man who liked to drink wine.

He was also shocked, as an ambassador to France, to note that French women wore no underwear. He was arrested for truancy in France. He tried to establish a Christian state religion when he was president but Hamilton tricked him into writing that he was against the role of the Church and the State. We have no statements from Jefferson that he even advocated the seperation of Church and States. The quotes were added by cannabilistic ungrateful liberals in order to convert Jefferson to a liberal, though we know that his philosophy completely diverges from liberalism.

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