At 4:53 pm -0400 on 8/9/97, Mike Duvos wrote:
Correct. Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and others were Deists,
Well, Unitarians like to claim Jefferson, because of a nice letter he wrote to Joseph Priestly. Of course, we like to claim *all* the cool people...
and Masons, and would have laughed hysterically at the absurd notion of the divinity of Jesus Christ.
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