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Christianity Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.
- The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe…
- Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one…
- I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance…
- I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have arisen to the height you…
- Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting…
- To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are…
- The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].
- The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and…
- Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his…
- Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public…
- No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination.
- We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and obedience to the…
- In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.
- The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands…
- The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and…
- Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the…
- It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely the ravings of…
- His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did. The being described in his five points is ... a demon…
- Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.
- Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence…
- There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.
- To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only…
- Reason and free inquiry are the only effective agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion by bringing every…
- I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
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