(Robert Cohen) wrote:
:|I am under the impression that Jefferson was a Unitarian.
Of a sorts. He was born into a colony that had a established church and
laws about supporting said church, etc.
As a yng adult he would have fit the Deist thinking later in life, post
1800 he became more of a Unitarian of the type advocated by Dr. Priestley,
but didn't totally follow that school of thought either.
He was not a orthodox Christian. He also was never a atheist which many
claimed he was.
:|Perhaps he was a deist, rather than a theist.
:|I have never read that he was anti-Roman Catholicism or anti-Judaism or
:|anti-Mohammedism as such.
:|
:|Was he against suffrage for non-Protestants?
:|
:|I don't know, but doubt he would be.
:|
Some of his views on religion can be found at
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff1650.htm
:|I know he was very interested in France which consists of more Catholics than
:|Hugenots.
:|However, we know there was some discrimination against Catholics in the
:|Colonies.
Quite a bit in fact.
:|Maryland was founded by Lord Baltimore (who was Catholic?) as seemingly a
:|kinduv refuge (?).
Maryland later became quite Protestant
:|
:|Here's a good question for us to deal with:
:|
:|Name the signers of the Declaration of Independence and delegates to the
:|Constitutional Convention(s) (including the Articles of Confederation
:|conferees) who are not Protestant.
:|
And the point for doing this would be?
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