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JDPriestly

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1. I am not an expert on Jefferson, but I have read enough of his writings

Reply to Ian David (Original post)

Mon May 7, 2012, 08:39 AM

May 2012

including the Jefferson Bible and Jefferson's correspondence with Adams as well as other selected original texts to know that Jefferson believed in the morality of Jesus but not the divinity of Jesus.

I don't see how anyone can read Jefferson and think otherwise. It's just silly to argue to the contrary.

Jefferson was a man of the Enlightenment. He has to be understood in the context of the authors he read and the friendships he held dear.

Ignorance sells.

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