Notes on Religion
“Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. I may grow rich by art I am compelled to follow, I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment, but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve & abhor.”
- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Religion (October, 1776)
Greg the Explorer said
am July 30 2008 @ 2:15 am
And yet the Americans uphold Thomas Jefferson as proof of the Christian beginning s of their nation – they will believe anything they want to believe.
Trouble is that Jefferson also said some pretty positive things about what some point to as his own faith – but his behaviour with mistresses and slaves points in a hole different direction.
Greg
Anonymous said
am May 11 2010 @ 11:14 am
this is boring