In some of the delightful conversations with you, in the evenings of 1798. 99. which served as an Anodyne to the afflictions of the crisis through which our country was then labouring, the Christian religion was sometimes our topic: and I then promised you that, one day or other, I would give you my views of it. they are the result of a life of enquiry & 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 any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others;...
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they were fans of Jesus just like President Trump!
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-40-02-0178-0001
Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 21 April 1803
Washington April 21. 1803.
Dear Sir
In some of the delightful conversations with you, in the evenings of 1798. 99. which served as an Anodyne to the afflictions of the crisis through which our country was then labouring, the Christian religion was sometimes our topic: and I then promised you that, one day or other, I would give you my views of it. they are the result of a life of enquiry & 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 any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others;...