The Greatest Enemies of the Gospels are Their Believers

The truth is that the greatest enemies to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them, who have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely incomprehensible, and without any foundation in his genuine words. 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 we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with all this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human errors.

Notes:

Jefferson was very skeptical of the Gospels, which he felt were perverted with miracles that diluted the reformer's message.

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Letter from to John Adams

Personal Communications>Personal Letter: Jefferson , Thomas (April 11, 1823), Letter from to John Adams, Retrieved on 2012-01-12

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12 JAN 2012

America's Founding Fathers on Religion

The Founding Fathers were mostly deists who were fairly skeptical of many claims in the Bible and of religious leaders. They also believed strongly in the separation of church and state.

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