tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19219922.post116672659441307136..comments2024-03-03T21:51:46.662-05:00Comments on stylos: Jefferson, Calvinism, and the Roots of American Religious LibertyJeffrey T. Riddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16374856944409335186noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19219922.post-3536161570286267312011-07-28T18:53:49.274-04:002011-07-28T18:53:49.274-04:00Laura,
I don't know the answer to that one. ...Laura,<br /><br />I don't know the answer to that one. I was just going on the info posted on the historical markers at the Courthouse. I'd love to know more about Clay and the "Calvinistical" church that met at the Courthouse.<br /><br />JTRJeffrey T. Riddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16374856944409335186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19219922.post-71130213037123923032011-07-28T12:47:44.419-04:002011-07-28T12:47:44.419-04:00Is the Rev Charles Clay the same Charles Clay who ...Is the Rev Charles Clay the same Charles Clay who was born 1715 and died 1789 and was married to Martha Green?<br />Thank you!<br />Laura Clay BallardLaurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01898296762939821805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19219922.post-1166740519786490902006-12-21T17:35:00.000-05:002006-12-21T17:35:00.000-05:00Anon,I am not claiming that Jefferson was a Christ...Anon,<BR/><BR/>I am not claiming that Jefferson was a Christian. No doubt, he was not, and, as you rightly point out, his cut-and-paste Bible demonstrates his rejection of Scripture's authority.<BR/><BR/>My point is that Jefferson was influenced by (and had influence upon) evangelical Christians (like the Rev. Clay and Col.Harvie from the "Calvinistical" Church). Further, it was the largely Protestant (not Deist) citizenry who gave us the foundation of religious liberty. These are the committed, Scripture soaked believers of whom I wrote (not Jefferson!).<BR/><BR/>JTRJeffrey T. Riddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16374856944409335186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19219922.post-1166729858397072862006-12-21T14:37:00.000-05:002006-12-21T14:37:00.000-05:00Is this the same Jefferson which also said "The wh...Is this the same Jefferson which also said "The whole history of these books [the Gospels] is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills." -Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, January 24, 1814<BR/><BR/>Dear sir, I think you've greatly mischaracterized Jefferson's religion. You need not take my word for it, or that of a single quote. Read the page about Jefferson's religion at Monticello:<BR/><BR/>http://www.monticello.org/reports/interests/religion.html <BR/><BR/>He was hardly the good "committed, Scripture saturated Christian" that you make him out to be. After all, if Catholics aren't Christian (as you've claimed in other blog entries) then certainly Jefferson's radical beliefs, which denied the divinity of Jesus, certainly shouldn't qualify as Christian either.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com