thomas jefferson

So says David Barton: Some "Orthodox Christian" there.

Thought it was worth posting here to let you guys watch and post comments on. I like how Barton addresses the cherry picking of Jefferson's letters to portray him as an atheist knowing full well Jefferson never was. I also like their comments on what secular means, or at least, what it means to...

Franklind D. Roosevelt Simple Truths message to Congress (1938) Thomas Jefferson

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch15s32.html .

Not only do they have Christine O'Donnell, but the GOP (tea party) candidate who is running for Mike Castle's old congressional seat is also somewhat of a "character" as well. What the . . . . .??? http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/gop-candidate-hitler-church-state/ What’s even worse is...

Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned: yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To...

I am of the opinion that the 1st amendment was greatly changed by the Supreme Court in 1947 and it used Jefferson's own words as part of their justification in doing so. I find this ironic if we are to believe these 8 quotes by Jefferson, because he feared this very thing happening. From the...

John Stuart Mill’s Autobiography, Paragraph 27 This was a blog post that I thought was very interesting and I hope that Keith Brugess-Jackson, who wrote the post, doesn't mind my copypasta. Unless you have express permission from the author, you may not reproduce in full his work.

If Thomas Jefferson were alive today and running for President, would you (assuming Americans here) vote for him?

DOC has started a number of threads which all raise a seemingly inconsequential point. (Was peter in rome, was Lief Erikkson christian, Communism better as christian,...). Whenever asked, "So what?", the question goes unanswered. I wish to start this thread by presenting my believe as to...

I went to the bookstore to buy Christopher Hitchens' book "Thomas Jefferson: Author of America" (2005), and after locating it and flipping through it I decided not to buy it, leaving disappointed. It's less than 200 pages, no footnotes, no bibliography, and it was poorly bound. All for a $22.00...

Yes, according to an audio tape of Dr. James Kennedy of Ft. Lauderdale Florida, Thomas Jefferson was a Bible Scholar who read the Bible daily. Jefferson read the Bible in English, Greek, Latin, and French. Jefferson also contributed his own money to 10 different churches in the 8 years he was...

It is easy to make fun of Dubya's stupidity and there are probably a hundred websites dedicated to that purpose. I don't expect all of our Presidents to be the giants that the likes of Washingtion, Adams and Jefferson were, but I would expect them to maintain some sort of the basic core...

Thomas Jefferson's self-composed epitaph lists what he believed to be his greatest accomplishments (but surprisingly mentions nothing about his service as the third president of the United States): One of Jefferson's greatest achievements, in his view, was the Statute of Virginia for Religious...