jdr

joined 5 years ago
[–] jdr@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

I think we can agree he was a critic of organized religion, and that it's pretty enlightened to not have the state impose religion on anyone.

That said I still think he (at least for a large chunk of his life) believed in the existence of a god, the god of Abraham/Christianity in particular.

[–] jdr@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Are you sure? He definitely said and wrote things to the contrary, including the Declaration of Independence.

I never doubted, for instance, the existence of the Deity; that He made the world, and governed it by His providence; that the most acceptable service of God was the doing good to man; that our souls are immortal; and that all crime will be punished, and virtue rewarded, either here or hereafter.

I have no dog in this race, being neither American nor religious, but it seems like an important historical detail.

[–] jdr@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Funny, isn't liberty an inalienable right granted by The Creator?

[–] jdr@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago
[–] jdr@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You mean it can't detect hatewatching?

[–] jdr@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Genuinely 1984

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