How is Thomas Jefferson a Diest? What is a Diest?

Question

I believe he is a born again Christian and prophetic and in heaven with the Lord Jesus Christ.

Answer 1

A Deist is someone who believes in a deity, but in a non-involved sense, like it created the world and then wandered off somewhere.

Is that what you think? Let's ask him:

"I have examined all the known superstitions of the world and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the earth."

"Christianity...(has become) the most perverted system that ever shone on man...Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and imposters led by Paul, the first great corruptor of the teachings of Jesus."


"The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulturated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth and power to themselves...these clergy in fact, constitute the real Anti-Christ."

Jefferson's word for the Bible? "Dunghill."

"[A] short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State; that the purest system of morals ever before preached to man, has been adulterated and sophisticated by artificial constructions, into a mere contrivance to filch wealth and power to themselves; that rational men not being able to swallow their impious heresies, in order to force them down their throats, they raise the hue and cry of infidelity, while themselves are the greatest obstacles to the advancement of the real doctrines of Jesus, and do in fact constitute the real Anti-Christ."

Thomas Jefferson, to Samuel Kercheval, 1810

Answer 2

Yes, Thomas Jefferson was a deist. or practiced Deism, however you want to put it. So were other founding fathers, such as Ben Franklin. Basically what it means is that they believed in more of a scientific views of the world around them rather than spiritual views.


Deism is a religious philosophy and movement that became prominent in England, France, and the United States in the 17th and 18th centuries. Deists typically reject supernatural events (prophecy, miracles) and divine revelation prominent in organized religion, along with holy books and revealed religions that assert the existence of such things. Instead, deists hold that religious beliefs must be founded on human reason and observed features of the natural world, and that these sources reveal the existence of one God or supreme being.

Answer 3

Then you don't know your history do you? Deists believe that God created the world and then left it alone, stepped back, if you will. Thomas Jefferson was a Deist, as were many of our founding fathers. People in that time were not 'prophetic' like they are today. They were much more conservative and respectful. What is that called again? Oh yes. Manners.

Answer 4

My sister is a Deist. She believes that there is some sort of larger, benevolent force out there that doesn't discriminate and doesn't want to be worshipped. I don't know if that was what T. Jefferson believed, but that's my understanding of a Deist.

Also, brushing up on your history would do you a world of good.

Answer 5

Deism was a movement stemming from the Enlightenment which focused on humanity rather than religion as the source of knowledge and culture, essentially. Deists believed that there was such a thing as a god (or God), but that we as humans could not know His will, and that He was not active in human everyday existence. Therefore, God is real to a Deist, but our lives are not about pleasing God or worshipping Him, but rather about living in harmony with our fellow human beings. Thus the issue of slavery was such a problem for Jefferson.

Answer 6

Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, to name a few were all unitarians. And some were also deists. They were not psycho christians like the right wingers are now. They believed in seperation of church and state unlike the boob in the white house now. Your question is a direct reflection of the crappy state of the education system in this country.

Answer 7

A Deist believes that a god made the word but didn't particularly care about its inhabitants and just left the world to sort itself out.

Sorry, there's no way he could have been a b.a. Christian, they weren't even around until long after he died.

Answer 8

won't be able to exist. Deism believes God made the universe then left, having no longer some thing extra to do with creation. Being a Christian ability you've self belief God became flesh in Jesus. that isn't any longer leaving, that's being correct with us.

Answer 9

Then youre believing a lie, born agian christianity wasnt around until 1950, and i think Thomas Jefferson came and went by then, btw T.J. wrote his own version of the bible, and it wasnt a christianized bible, it was done with his own spin on it. a Deist is an Agnostic that believes God came made the Earth and forgot about it, Deists are not christian, so dont claim them as your own either.

Answer 10

Jefferson was in no way a Christian fundie fanatic. I am a deist. I believe in God but I believe that He doesn't get involved here in any way. I think God was the big bang and then evolution took over.