Jefferson was more pro-Christianity than we realize. In a recent blog, I listed many examples. Let’s hear some more: ∙It should be noted that Jefferson spent so much time in earnest study of the teachings of Jesus than he excels the diligence of the average professing Christian today when it …
Thomas Jefferson was a complicated man. He was an outspoken champion of freedom and opponent of slavery, yet he owned slaves virtually all his life and never freed them, not even upon death. Samuel Johnson Around the time of the American Revolution, Dr. Samuel Johnson in England asked a penetrating …
Most clergy in Jefferson’s lifetime were not antagonistic to him. Only later did this begin to be popular in some historical works of clergy. And similarly Jefferson was not universally opposed to the clergy. His anti-clericalism was clearly selective and focused, and for biographers to not make that distinction is …