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THOMAS JEFFERSON, THE MAN, AND PERSONAL VIEWS/BELIEFS. By radical2012(JR ZIEGLER)
I was greatly impressed to learn that a Forefather of the U.S. Constitution- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was NOT a Christian. We all know that Jefferson made so many wonderful patriotic quotes concerning freedom and the dangers of the central bank. He was a scientist first, a farmer second and politician last. Jefferson was a witty inventor.
Jefferson was an accomplished architect. George Washington and Jefferson laid out the City of Washington D.C., clearly in an occult manner of lines in symbolisms. Both men were high-level Freemasons.. Jefferson's Monticello estate was superb. He also designed the State House for Virginia.
Is it really that tragic that such a brilliant man could reject the Word of God way back then. There are historical writings which reveal that Thomas Jefferson claimed to be a Christian, including an actual photo of Jefferson's handwritten statement “I am a real Christian.” Just as most professed Christians today are not true born-again believers, the following quotes from Mr. Jefferson make it quite clear that he was NO Christian:

“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
Here you see that Jefferson denied Jesus' virgin birth, and so denied the Son of God. Jefferson was an incredible orator, admirably patriotic and certainly spoke the truth about the evils of the central banks. Jefferson's quotes in his writings reveal him to be no Christian by saying- "It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
In another letter, Jefferson says- "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 political as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purpose. " — Thomas Jefferson to Baron von Humboldt, 1813
"Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites" –Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782.
"Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers led by Paul, the first great corrupter of the teaching of Jesus."
"The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth and power to themselves...these clergy, in fact, constitute the real Anti-Christ."
"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature."
Jefferson always had unfinished projects that he was working on, never a dull moment, working around his home mansion. Jefferson didn't like politics. He was an amazing person and suffered many sorrows to his soul, dying a broken-hearted man. He referred to death as “THE HEALING GRAVE.” People back then had genuine feelings, loyalty to principle and fear of God.
Today, people are soul dead, hard-hearted, without natural affection, cruel and Godless (Romans 3:18). Jefferson, as did most great men back then, wrote thousands of letters throughout his lifetime. I hate TV and radio. Because it has ruined the world. Hardly anyone writes letters anymore. And the literary beauty of the letters back then are incredible, expressing the sincerest feelings of their soul. I would have loved to have lived during those early days of America. People were real back then. It is a shame that unsaved people back then were more sincere than many phony Christians today.
Thomas Jefferson was one of America's greatest patriots. Our founding fathers, if they could come back today with the power to execute justice, would have most of congress and Washington D.C. hanging by their necks by sundown.
Further, Thomas Jefferson was convinced that he could improve on God to write the Bible, so he butchered the Words of God, Thomas Jefferson And His so-called Heathen Bible. The 'Jefferson Bible' was Thomas Jefferson's attempt to extract an authentic Jesus from the Gospel accounts. by Marilyn Mellowes. The White House, Washington, D.C. 1804.
Thomas Jefferson was frustrated. It was not the burdens of office that bothered him. It was his Bible. Jefferson was convinced that the authentic words of Jesus written in the New Testament had been contaminated. He knew that Early Christians, overly eager to make their religion appealing to the pagans, had obscured the words of Jesus with the philosophy of the ancient Greeks and the teachings of Plato. These "Platonists" had thoroughly muddled Jesus' original message. Jefferson assured his friend and rival, John Adams, that the authentic words of Jesus were still there. The task, as he put it, was one of abstracting what is really his from the rubbish in which it is buried, easily distinguished by its lustre from the dross of his biographers, and as separate from that as the diamond from the dung hill.
Jefferson set aside his New Testament research, returning to it again in the summer of 1820. This time, he completed a more ambitious work, The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth Extracted Textually from the Gospels in Greek, Latin, French and English. The text of the New Testament appears in four parallel columns in four languages. Jefferson omitted the words that he thought were inauthentic and retained those he believed were original. The resulting work is commonly known as the "Jefferson Bible."
Who was the Jesus that Jefferson found? He was not the familiar figure of the New Testament. In Jefferson's Bible, there is no account of the beginning and the end of the Gospel story. There is no story of the annunciation, the virgin birth or the appearance of the angels to the shepherds. The resurrection is not even mentioned.
Jefferson discovered that Jesus who was a great Teacher of Common Sense. His message was the morality of absolute love and service. Its authenticity was not dependent upon the dogma of the Trinity or even the claim that Jesus was uniquely inspired by God. Jefferson saw Jesus as a man, of illegitimate birth, of a benevolent heart, (and an) enthusiastic mind, who set out without pretensions of divinity, ended in believing them, and was punished capitally for sedition by being gibbeted according to the Roman law.
In short, Mr. Jefferson's Jesus, modeled on the ideals of the Enlightenment thinkers of his day, bore a striking resemblance to Jefferson himself.
The Need for Morals and Virtue in Society. America has never been a Christian nation . . Thomas Jefferson put it most poignantly:

“No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and people so demoralized [lacking good morals] and depraved as to be incapable of exercising a wholesome control, their reformation must be taken up ab incunabulis(ie, from the cradle : from infancy). Their minds [must] be informed by education what is right and what wrong, be encouraged in habits of virtue and deterred from those of vice by the dread of punishments, proportioned indeed, but irremissible. In all cases, follow truth as the only safe guide and eschew error which bewilders us in one false consequence after another in endless succession. These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure of order and good government”. – Thomas Jefferson to John Adams (1819. ME 15:234)
Religion, as well as reason, confirms the soundness of those principles on which our government has been founded and its rights asserted. – Thomas Jefferson to P. H. Wendover, (1815. ME 14:283)
To put it in today's language, it was Jefferson's conviction that by nature, people are depraved, immoral and lacking self-control. He therefore believed that the only way that the American style of government could be maintained was to instruct everyone in right and wrong from birth, and train them toward good habits and virtue through disciplinary consequences. Political self-government, he said, requires that citizens be raised to despise dishonesty and embrace personal integrity through instruction and repeated admonitions. Religion and reason, he said, form the basis for our nation's foundations.