TE> KK> It's not hard to find quotes from the founding fathers and others
TE> KK> stating these things.  Jefferson and other deists had other opinions,
TE> KK> though I don't have those quotes anymore.
TE>Give it a rest.  Jefferson criticized the practices of *some*
TE>religious leaders, not Christianity in general.
That's because he was a Deist, and saw clearly the damage that
could happen when religious sects took political power.
He also
TE>wrote.statements on *both* sides of several issues during his
TE>lifetime, including slavery.
Right.  While he publicly advocated the slow abolition of slavery,
he privately asserted that them nigras were not capable of the
attainments of real humans.
If you would like to push your idea to a further conclusion,
all you have to do is take your above point and apply it to
what Jefferson thought about Chritianity:  while his private
opinion of sectarian Christianity was not very high, he also
acknowledged publicly that it would have to be enlisted to
form a strong Union.
Try doing thorough research some
TE>time instead of stopping when you find something that *seems* to
TE>support your predetermined conclusion.
Oddly enough, when others here post Jefferson quotes that agree
with your value programming, you don't complain that they have been
taken out of context.
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