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Kansas town in uproar over removal of Jesus painting from public middle school
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<blockquote data-quote="GoldenBoy89" data-source="post: 68532907" data-attributes="member: 316203"><p>3rd President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson was definitely not a Christian. He did not believe in the Trinity, the virgin birth, the divinity of Christ or the concept of original sin. He even went as far as to rewrite the bible taking out the supernatural and mystical claims attributed to Jesus including the resurrection. Not something most Christians would be willing to do.</p><p></p><p>2nd President, John Adams was a Unitarian and didn't believe in the Holy Trinity and rejected the divinity of Christ which, by most mainstream Christian standards is not a Christian thing to do.</p><p></p><p>I don't think I need to tell you too much about Thomas Paine and his views of organized religions like Christianity, if you know anything about the guy. Here's a great quote of his: </p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>The opinions I have advanced ... are the effect of the most clear and long-established conviction that the Bible and the Testament are impositions upon the world, that the fall of man, the account of Jesus Christ being the Son of God, and of his dying to appease the wrath of God, and of salvation, by that strange means, are all fabulous inventions, dishonorable to the wisdom and power of the Almighty; that the only true religion is <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deism" target="_blank">Deism</a>, by which I then meant, and mean now, the belief of one God, and an imitation of his moral character, or the practice of what are called moral virtues – and that it was upon this only (so far as religion is concerned) that I rested all my hopes of happiness hereafter. So say I now – and so help me God.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em></em></p><p>I can't say much about the general population of the country at the time as I don't know what they might have believed in but it is obvious that some of the most influential founders of this country were certainly not Christians or at the very least had very unorthodox views of Christianity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoldenBoy89, post: 68532907, member: 316203"] 3rd President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson was definitely not a Christian. He did not believe in the Trinity, the virgin birth, the divinity of Christ or the concept of original sin. He even went as far as to rewrite the bible taking out the supernatural and mystical claims attributed to Jesus including the resurrection. Not something most Christians would be willing to do. 2nd President, John Adams was a Unitarian and didn't believe in the Holy Trinity and rejected the divinity of Christ which, by most mainstream Christian standards is not a Christian thing to do. I don't think I need to tell you too much about Thomas Paine and his views of organized religions like Christianity, if you know anything about the guy. Here's a great quote of his: [INDENT][I]The opinions I have advanced ... are the effect of the most clear and long-established conviction that the Bible and the Testament are impositions upon the world, that the fall of man, the account of Jesus Christ being the Son of God, and of his dying to appease the wrath of God, and of salvation, by that strange means, are all fabulous inventions, dishonorable to the wisdom and power of the Almighty; that the only true religion is [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deism']Deism[/URL], by which I then meant, and mean now, the belief of one God, and an imitation of his moral character, or the practice of what are called moral virtues – and that it was upon this only (so far as religion is concerned) that I rested all my hopes of happiness hereafter. So say I now – and so help me God. [/I][/INDENT] I can't say much about the general population of the country at the time as I don't know what they might have believed in but it is obvious that some of the most influential founders of this country were certainly not Christians or at the very least had very unorthodox views of Christianity. [/QUOTE]
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