Christianity Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.

— Thomas Jefferson

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

— Thomas Jefferson

I have sworn upon the altar of god.

— Thomas Jefferson

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.

— Thomas Jefferson

My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just

— Thomas Jefferson

Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man.

— Thomas Jefferson

We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .

— Thomas Jefferson

All the world would be Christian if they were taught the pure Gospel of Christ!.

— Thomas Jefferson

The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.

— Thomas Jefferson

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

— Thomas Jefferson

Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house.

— Thomas Jefferson

The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].

— Thomas Jefferson

I am a real Christian - that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus Christ.

— Thomas Jefferson

In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.

— Thomas Jefferson

The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and…

— Thomas Jefferson

There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other…

— Thomas Jefferson

Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as…

— Thomas Jefferson

Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it…

— Thomas Jefferson

Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy - the most sublime…

— Thomas Jefferson

Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable…

— Thomas Jefferson

Truth can stand by itself...If there be but one right [religion], and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine…

— Thomas Jefferson

The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the…

— Thomas Jefferson

To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to…

— Thomas Jefferson

“When we see religion split into so many thousand of sects, and I may say Christianity itself divided into its thousands also,…

— Thomas Jefferson

Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality,…

— Thomas Jefferson

Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have…

— Thomas Jefferson

To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian,…

— Thomas Jefferson

I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and…

— Thomas Jefferson

Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects,…

— Thomas Jefferson

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none…

— Thomas Jefferson

“If, therefore, from the settlement of the Saxons, to the introduction of Christianity among them, that system of religion could not be…

— Thomas Jefferson

The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other. Is uniformity…

— Thomas Jefferson

“If we could believe that he [Jesus] really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanism which his biographers [Gospels] father on…

— Thomas Jefferson

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.

— Thomas Jefferson

Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.

— Thomas Jefferson

To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.

— Thomas Jefferson

In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the…

— Thomas Jefferson

The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against…

— Thomas Jefferson

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot,…

— Thomas Jefferson