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Although the beloved author of the Declaration
of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, was a firm
advocate for religious liberty in America for
Jews and all people, what has been carefully
censored from the history books is the absolute fact that
Jefferson clearly considered the Jewish religion itself to be
quite abominable.
Writing to John Adams on Oct. 13, 1813, the widely
read intellectual commented on the Talmud and other Jewish
teachings: “What a wretched depravity of sentiment and
manners must have prevailed before such corrupt maxims
could have obtained credit! It is impossible to collect from
these writings a consistent series of moral doctrine.”
Describing himself as “a real Christian, that is to say, a
disciple of the doctrines of Jesus,” Jefferson wrote to
William Short (on Oct. 31, 1819) that he considered Jesus
“the greatest of all the reformers of the depraved religion of
his own country,” adding in a subsequent letter to Short
(Aug. 4, 1820) that while Christ preached “philanthropy
and universal charity and benevolence,” the Jews followed
teachings that instilled in them “the most anti-social spirit
towards other nations.”
Jefferson wrote that Jesus—as a “reformer of the superstitions
of a nation,” was in an “ever dangerous” position
by opposing “the priests of the superstition”—the Pharisees—whom
he described as “a blood thirsty race . . . cruel
and remorseless as the Being whom they represented as the
family God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob, and the
local God of Israel.”
-Source – The Barnes Review
