... many religious conservatives are less comfortable with 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. More significantly, he penned the phrase many social conservatives have in recent decades denounced, advocating a steadfast "wall of separation between church and state."
U.S. has a church-state wall for a reason ~~~ Jefferson: 'Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined and imprisoned'
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