American Conservatives Are Divided over Thomas Jefferson

“America’s third president was a deist, at best, who authored his own interpretation of the New Testament, removing all references to Jesus’ divinity,” Worldwide Religious News writes. “More significantly, he penned the phrase many social conservatives have in recent decades denounced, advocating a steadfast ‘wall of separation between church and state.’”

Personally, I love Thomas Jefferson and his idea of a secular state as much as I hate the thought of both the theocratic state endorsed by religious extremists and the atheist society advocated by some radical secularists. I want a liberal society where the state stays out of religion and religion stays out of politics.