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Our Least Christian President

posted on July 6, 2012

At USA Today, Stephen Prothero argues that, contrary to the views expressed by many Christian conservatives, Thomas Jefferson was far from an “orthodox Christian.” “Jefferson called the biblical book of Revelation the ‘ravings of a maniac,'” writes Prothero. “He rejected the divinity of Jesus and the virgin birth. He characterized the Trinity as ‘hocus-pocus phantasm.'” 

Read at USA Today