IS the USA ready for a white christian President?
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Me thinks Jarod should stick to eating subway...
uscitizen
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Kinda mutually exclusive there in some areas.
OrnotBitwise
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Jefferson would disagree . . . so long as you're not talking about those Judeo-Christian principles having to do with subservience to God, praying for miracles or standing around expecting to be Raptured to a Better Place someday.
OrnotBitwise
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He declined to state: he believed that matters of religion should be private. So no one really knows.
I learned in high school that he was a Deist, but that may not be accurate. Late in life he hung out with a bunch of Unitarians a lot and expressed a lot of admiration for the Unitarian Church.
Jefferson was a Deist. He also wrote his own version of the New Testament...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible
He is claimed by many religions. Was raised Anglican, had admiration for Unitarians, held Deist beliefs and often spoke of himself as a "sect of one".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible
He is claimed by many religions. Was raised Anglican, had admiration for Unitarians, held Deist beliefs and often spoke of himself as a "sect of one".
He was a bit. Although he truly understood the concept of natural rights.
OrnotBitwise
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Yes. Pity he couldn't see his way through the logical fallacy there, but you can't have everything.
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Yeah, I think we've probably flogged that dead horse enough. I was just tweaking Damo's chain a little bit.
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Jefferson was a member of the Church of England. This is no mystery.
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Doesn't genius border on insanity?
OrnotBitwise
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Uhm, no: he wasn't. Not by choice, anyway.
He grew up in that church. Later joined another, but wanted to be Unitarian. He said he would have been Unitarian, but there were no Unitarian churches in Virginia.Uhm, no: he wasn't. Not by choice, anyway.
He even believed that all of the US would one day be Unitarian.
When he wrote his own version of the New Testament he took out mention of Christ's Divinity...
He proclaimed himself a Deist.
He had many, many differing views. He also claimed himself a sect of one. Dude was not a member of the Anglican church as an adult.
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Exactly so. He was never a practicing member of the Church of England as an adult.
He also said, repeatedly, that he believed religious belief ought to be a private matter. When asked, he adamantly refused to describe his own beliefs or even say to what church he belonged. Most of what we know comes from his Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth -- which, I believe, was not commercially published until after his death -- and from private correspondence with other prominent figures of the day. We know it historically but it was not public knowledge during his life.