10-30-2015, 02:32 PM
(10-30-2015, 02:27 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Really.... So I guess the part where he read they wanted to overthrow any nation who doesn't say their God is the only God. That didn't make a difference to Jefferson?
His writings on the matter indicated he did not take what he was told at face value (which is why he studied the Koran) and believed their motivations to be more secularly motivated than they claimed, using religion to try to justify motivations of other kinds.
