RE: Misrepresenting our Founding Fathers (to include other notable free-thinkers)
July 23, 2013 at 8:42 pm
No, late on in his life he had figured out that xtiantiy was total shit.
Jefferson died in 1826 at the age of 83 so, he was 80 when he wrote this to Adams.
Quote:"And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. "
Source: Letter of Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, April 11, 1823.
Jefferson died in 1826 at the age of 83 so, he was 80 when he wrote this to Adams.