Don't Tell Kids Thomas Jefferson was a Godly Man

[Neo-Puritan]

Does anybody care?

Seriously, what difference should this make?

I figure it is important that people actually understand the beliefs of the various founding fathers as they played a role in the shaping of our nation's history. Such as understanding Jefferson's gradual move from a more orthodox Christianity during the time when wrote the Declaration of Independence (while still greatly under the influence of his mentor Payton Randolf) to the Unitarian/Deistic beliefs that he held by the time of his presidency is a good thing.

However, I wasn't aware he was commonly held up as a paragon of Christianity, as none of this information is new or radical.

 

[Granite]

I've never encountered anyone foolish enough to claim Jefferson was a paragon of Christian virtues--maybe someone else has.

He was a remarkable figure, a true Renaissance man, and dismissing him as "ungodly" has to be one of the most ignorant, backward, disinterested, appalling, and insulting things I've come across on TOL in quite a while.