Expressing your religion to another can be very hard for some people to overcome. People view religion in all different kinds of ways. There are many different kinds of religions. Religion can be very hard for some people to get a grasp on and what they believe in. The topic for this paper is the religion of Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson was indeed a religious man. Jefferson believed that there was a creator but the creator did not interact with mankind, In the present day, this would be considered deism. Throughout Jefferson's life, many people debated that he was a Christian and many people debated that he was a deist. Jefferson was one of the founding fathers of this nation, and soon became …show more content…
Jefferson was one of the founding fathers and he wanted everyone to be free and not have to worry about what religion and beliefs they had. Thomas Jefferson's was debated by many because he did not just openly express what he believed into everyone so that's why most people wondered so much what he believed in. Jefferson was a very political man, and many people believed he was a Christian because in some of his political arguments he had some of the same views as a Christian would have. They also thought he was a Christian man because he swore in on the altar of god. Also, Jefferson regularly used scriptures straight out of the bible in many of his political announcements, but Jefferson's religion was labeled as deism. The religion of Deism has beliefs that there is a god but he does not interact with mankind, so Jefferson combined his beliefs with his political status because he was one of the founding fathers and he wanted a free nation where the people did not have to worry about someone interacting with them and what they had to believe in. So Thomas Jefferson's religion was labeled as a deist, and he did not believe that god interacted with mankind, but he also did not want anyone to …show more content…
Out of all the 200 plus founding fathers, the one that is closest to the religion of Deism would have to be Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson would never label himself as a certain religion, but he became to look and act more and more like a deist every day. He became to look like one because the difference him and his opponents had. Even though Jefferson did not label himself as a certain religion, he considered him a faithful learner of the teachings of Jesus. Jefferson would sometimes read the bible, but when he would read it he would read it carefully and respect every little detail of it, and from reading it he eventually came to believe that mankind could not answer and would never be able to answer the questions about and from the bible. Many of the founding fathers would use to argue and say that Jefferson was the typical Deist and did not see in the same way other early Americans saw. Jefferson believed that every human being should be unique in their own way and did not have to fit in our play a role in the modern world that was coming along rapidly. When the new republican language was being introduced Jefferson would speak it occasionally and he could notice that most of the young priest and teachers of god were not as sophisticated as many