Thomas Jefferson was a Deist not a Christian(http://christianworldviewpress.com/was-thomas-jefferson-a-christian/)
FTA It is clear that Jefferson was not an atheist. He actually wrote that it was “impossible for the human mind not to perceive and feel a conviction of design, consummate skill, and indefinite power in every atom of its composition.” Scholar Robert Fuller says that Jefferson was a deist.10 If Jefferson was a deist, he wasn’t like any other deist. Unlike most deists, he did not believe that God had completely removed himself from the world. The god that Jefferson believed in was very active in sustaining the world and governed human affairs by his providence. “He called this Creator and Sustainer of the universe ‘Nature’s God’ – a God who he believed was best portrayed in Psalm 148…”11 This phrase “Nature’s God” appears in the Declaration of Independence.
Although this sounds like the God of the Bible, it isn’t. Jefferson’s god did not reveal himself in the person of Jesus Christ. He did not believe that Jesus was sent by God to die and rise again for our sins. “Jefferson treated the teachings of Jesus as he would the teachings of any other ancient philosopher, but he did believe that Jesus’ ‘system of morals’ was ‘the most perfect and sublime that has ever been taught by man.’”12
Thanks for that. How does it refute what I wrote?
From your reference:
In John Fea's book "Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?" Jefferson is quoted as saying in 1816 that “I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus.” He married his wife in the Anglican Church and even his children were baptized as Anglicans.
Therefore, it's safe to say that while he may not have been a spiritual Christian, he was most definitely a cultural Christian.
FWIW, Tolstoy came to the same understanding that the genius of the Bible is in the Doctrine of Christ.
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