If we want to find the truth, we go straight to the root of something, straight to the very source (for Christianity we search the New Testament, for Greek philosophy we read Aristotle and Plato, etc.) For the Founding fathers of this nation, we go straight to their biographies. We dont read a bit of this and a bit of that, we dont hear peoples opinion of what they think the fathers were and believed, but we dig-in their very lives, page by page. In my case, it is paragraph by paragraph because this book has so much of great content, that no way I can chew everything like if it were a novel. The book is, Thomas Jefferson-The Art of Power by J. Meacham, and it has won the Pulitzer award. I was mostly curious on the Christianity of these fathers, because I have heard so much on this topic that i had to know for myself. Being a follower of Enlightenment, he was a skeptic of traditional christianity. Jefferson had come to believe the apostolic faith was superstitious and therefore unreasonable...in 1786,a statute for religious liberty from JEffersons pen became law.The bill, JEfferson said, was :meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the jew and the gentile, the christian and mahometan, the hindoo, and infidel of every denomination. JEfferson believed it unjust and unwise to use public funds to suuport an established church and to link civil rights to religious observance. He said such a system led to spiritual tyranny. The call to the day of fasting and praying before the Revolution, illustrated his growing understanding of the importance of engaging the EMOTIONS of ONES Followers...What an amazing brain! And he was classically educated, with much Greek and Latin. Genius! .
Posted on: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 23:36:46 +0000
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