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God was not Thomas Jefferson’s Father. The apostle John says that those who testify lies
concerning the Christ, denying His deity, denying that Jesus was God come in the flesh are
manifesting the spirit of antichrist. As more evidence is presented in this teaching series
it will be made readily apparent that it has been the spirit of antichrist guiding the American
government from its inception down to this day.

Many Christians have been fooled by false historical accounts of the nation’s founding and
of the character and beliefs of its founding fathers. They have not “examined all things
carefully” as the apostle Paul admonished them to do. Nor have they been “as wise as
serpents, but harmless as doves” as Christ commanded His followers to be in this world.
Some look at the inscription on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington and are beguiled
into thinking that Jefferson was a defender of the faith of Christianity. On his memorial is
the following quotation:

“I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over
the mind of man.”

There are very few Christians who have done their homework in order to understand the
context of this Jefferson quotation. Thomas Jefferson penned these words while he was
running for election to the Presidency of the United States. There were numerous ministers
from the area of Philadelphia who were aware of Jefferson’s antichrist spirit. They
understood that Jefferson was a deist who believed in a god of nature that could not be
known on a personal level. Jefferson viewed all teaching of a personal God who is active in
the affairs of men as rubbish. He discounted the divine inspiration of the Bible in both the
Old and New Testaments. A number of ministers from Philadelphia put out pamphlets
warning the local citizenry about Jefferson’s beliefs.

In a letter written to Benjamin Rush in 1800 Thomas Jefferson commented on the
opposition of these Christian ministers.

"The returning good sense of our country threatens abortion to their hopes, & they (the
clergy) believe that any portion of power confided to me, will be exerted in opposition to
their schemes. And they believe rightly; for I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal
hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. But this is all they have to
fear from me: & enough too in their opinion, & this is the cause of their printing lying
pamphlets against me. . ."
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What many Christians have mistakenly taken as evidence of Jefferson’s belief in the God
of the Bible, is actually an extract from statements he wrote in defense of the local clergy’s
reproof of his lack of belief in the deity of Christ.

Since Jefferson played so large a part in the foundation of America, and the writing of her
most influential documents, one must ask what truly shaped his thoughts. Jefferson studied
the philosophers of what has come to be known as The Enlightenment. These philosophers
believed that reason was the highest principle upon which to base all science and politics.
These same philosophers discounted revelation, such as that identified as Holy Scripture,