The book DOUBTING THOMAS by Mark Beliles and Jerry Newcombe documents 2 overall points: 1) Jefferson was not a lifelong skeptic, and 2) he did not believe in a secular state—that there is to be a separation of God and government. For decades, our third president had a friendship with …
It is not well known that early in life Thomas Jefferson, as a layman, helped found an evangelical church. This was a year after he wrote the Declaration of Independence, and it was the same year, 1777, that he wrote the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. As a layman, in …
Thomas Jefferson was not a lifelong skeptic. Our book, DOUBTING THOMAS, documents that. But he did harbor serious doubts about key Christian doctrines later in life. Furthermore, it is not accurate to say that Jefferson believed in the strict separation of church and state, the way the ACLU and …
[Pictured: photo by Jerry Newcombe of the Charlottesville courthouse, historic site of the evangelical church that Jefferson helped organize as a layman in the late 1770’s] Jefferson was not a lifelong skeptic. Nor did he believe that God should be banished from the public square. By today’s standards, he might …