My first subject of research is Thomas Jefferson, our third President. What did he actually believe about the word of God? Well, take a few minutes and read the quotes taken from his letters.
After reading the quotes, take a look at what Thomas Jefferson decided to do to the word of God.
Without further ado, let's allow Thomas to speak for himself. The following are several quotes from his letters.
“And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But may we hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated reformer of human errors.” —Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823
The whole history of these books [the Gospels] is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills. —Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, January 24, 1814
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus." —Thomas Jefferson, letter to Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, 30 July, 1816
It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it [the Apocalypse], and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherences of our own nightly dreams. —Thomas Jefferson, letter to General Alexander Smyth, Jan. 17, 1825
Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law. —Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814
Below are pictures of Thomas Jefferson's source Bibles that he used to cut and paste from. Also pictured is the book he pasted his chosen verses into.
Notice the care he took in carving up the Bible, it really speaks volumes for how he felt about the Bible.
As you can see, he didn't really write his own Bible as some believe, rather he "cut and pasted" (literally) his own Bible, carving up the word of God like a steak.
Yes, it is a hard fact, from the very foundation of our country we have been led by people who maintained an image of Christianity only because the majority of the people believed the Bible.
Many of our leaders held no such beliefs and today they would be proud to see the decline in Christianity. It was all a facade propped up to the degree necessary to fool the population at large, who ultimately show themselves to be sheep.
Rather than rolling over in their graves they would stand and cheer, yes friends we have been duped into believing that America was founded on Christian principles when it clearly was not. It was only the God fearing population that held our leaders to even pretend that they were Christian.
Now that that hold is weakening, they are free to be as Godless as they please, as they have been all along. Stay tuned for more research soon!
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