You obviously never saw this fact-checked documentary:
Posted on 11/20/2012 1:47:47 PM PST by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
Jefferson was not an atheist, but neither was he a Christian believer.
All one has to do is read the Second Inaugural Address........
First the fags and now this.
The letter that President Lincoln sent to a Mrs Bixby of Boston during the Civil war strongly suggests otherwise:
Executive Mansion,
Washington, Nov. 21, 1864.
Dear Madam,
I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,
A. Lincoln
That’s not true. The idea that he was a “deist” is incorrect. His now infamous “seperation of church and state” letter was written to someone of a certain denomination who was afraid that Jefferson was going to impose his own (Christian) denomination on the nation at the expense of others.
I love how the left uses Jefferson’s above mentioned letter against us while ignoring his 17,000 some odd other letters.
Washington wasn't exactly a Deist either, but he had leanings in that direction.
Lincoln had something of an Old Testament view of religion that deepened as he aged. He understood judgment, but had a hard time accepting redemption.
I always thought Lincoln was an agnostic. But since libs write all the books, perhaps I’m mistaken. And the idea that Washington was an athiest!!!
Yes there is no historical evidnece of him being an atheist at the later part of his life... it was only speculated at the begining
Yes there is no historical evidnece of him being an atheist at the later part of his life... it was only speculated at the begining
Yes there is no historical evidnece of him being an atheist at the later part of his life... it was only speculated at the begining
Yes there is no historical evidnece of him being an atheist at the later part of his life... it was only speculated at the begining
Yes there is no historical evidnece of him being an atheist at the later part of his life... it was only speculated at the begining
Yes there is no historical evidnece of him being an atheist at the later part of his life... it was only speculated at the begining
...good to know, guess I should bake a few and pray to them for the removal of an evil Marxist tyrant trying to divide our nation into warring factions as well...
Jefferson was not a Christian believer. In fact, he edited his own copy of the Gospels which removed all the references to miracles and the deity of Christ.
As for the “separation of church and state”, that’s another issue. But it’s really not relevant, as Jefferson wasn’t even in the country when the Constitution was drafted.
You obviously never saw this fact-checked documentary:
I understand what you’re saying x. But in his second inaugural address, Lincoln said, “Let us judge not, that we be not judged.” Those are the words of Christ, which are very New Testament.
I actually bought that book. Then I read a review that all of the vampires were Confederates and that turned me off!! And I speak as a Yankee who had ancestors who dodged the draft in NYC.
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