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What was thomas jefferson's view of the relationship between religion and government

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An empiricist

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Thomas Jefferson was deeply but unconventionally religious. An empiricist, he believed that a rational & benevolent God was evident in the beauty and order of the universe. Jefferson "Christianism," a belief in the morals taught by Jesus of Nazareth, but he rejected Jesus's divinity, resurrection, the atonement, and biblical miracles.

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