(January 18, 2016 at 10:47 pm)KUSA Wrote: Found a couple of funny pics on this subject.
I know it is unintentional but try not to spread bad memes. Jefferson was not an atheist. He was a Unitarian/deist. He did not see Jesus as a magic/man/god, but did see Jesus as a mere mortal and liked him like Plato and Socrates.If I had been alive to debate him back then knowing what society knows now, I would have told him even his generic deism sucks as an idea, and the NT Jesus character was not the all nice guy people like to paint him as.
But he did value questioning of faith and blasphemy "Question with boldness even the existence of a god, for if there be one, surely he would pay more homage to reason than to that of blindfolded fear". Thomas Jefferson.
"Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions" Thomas Jefferson.
And while he had a generic god whom he believed started everything but stepped aside after, he certainly thought atheists were capable of being moral, "whence arises the morality of the atheist? It is idle to say, as some do, that no such thing exists." Thomas Jefferson.