Thomas Jefferson: Quotes on Christianity and god

Many Christians today are so ignorant they imagine that any time anyone uses the word "god" they mean the personal Christian god that so many American Christians believe in. They seem to be unaware that the term "god" can have countless other meanings - some of which have nothing at all in common with their own rather extreme concept of god.

Not to even mention that there are millions of other gods in other religions throughout human history. Some religions, like Buddhism, have no god at all. Their concept of Ultimate Reality is basically Consciousness itself, not a being that is separate from you.

This confusion in the minds of many Christians has caused some of them to claim that men like Thomas Jefferson were Christians according to their own idea of what that should mean. But Jefferson was clearly NOT a Christian in that sense. His idea of "god" resembled that of the god of deism, or Nature's god. Here are a few quotes that clearly show Jefferson did not share the beliefs about god that the typical fundamentalist Christian does today:

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
- Thomas Jefferson