This was the beginning of Jefferson unjustly (in part) gaining a reputation as a skeptic. Daniel Dreisbach is a professor of justice, law, and society at American University and author of Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation of Church and State. He wrote a lengthy article for Christian History …
Merrill Peterson notes that Jefferson’s ties to France were a big part of the problem.[1] He writes: “Infidelity, Jacobinism, Disunionism—these were the most dreadful evils the people had to fear from the lean and crafty Virginian.” “The source of Jeffferson’s malignity was French philosophy. He was a visionary theorist, ‘a …
Jefferson was accused of not being a Christian during the election of 1800. The irony is that his opponent, John Adams, was less of one (in terms of Trinitarian orthodoxy). Allegations against Jefferson were so prominent during that ugly campaign that the gist of them is still remembered to this …