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August 10, 2010 - 1:57 pm - by Richard Fernandez
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2010-08-11 19:14:21

Charles 91: “When you (referring to Thomas Jefferson) reject the divinity of Christ you leave the pale of Christian orthodoxy.”

True, Thomas Jefferson was not an Orthodox Christian; but that was never my contention. Regardless of his views on Jesus, Thomas Jefferson worshiped the Orthodox Biblical God as the excerpt from his second inagural address proves.

“I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our fathers, as Israel of old, from their native land and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessaries and comforts of life; who has covered our infancy with His providence and our riper years with His wisdom and power…” Thomas Jefferson

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/jefinau2.asp

Thomas Jefferson was not a Deist, nor was he an Orthodox Christian. As with the rest of us, God will judge his soul; not any man.