Jefferson's Advocacy For Protection Of Jew, Gentile, Mahometan, Hindoo And Infidel

Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_religions45.html

1821 Works 1:71

"The bill for establishing religious freedom, the principles of which had, to a certain degree, been enacted before, I had drawn in all the latitude of reason and right. It still met with opposition; but, with some mutilations in the preamble, it was finally passed; and a singular proposition proved that its protection of opinion was meant to be universal. Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed, by inserting the word "Jesus Christ," so that it should read, "a departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;" the insertion was rejected by a great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo, and Infidel of every denomination." (For more insight into Jefferson's relationship with Islam, see http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2007/01/jeffersons_quran.html) 

"Thomas Jefferson Was A Muslim"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/04/thomas-jefferson-was-muslim-candidate.html

"Our Founding Fathers on Christianity"

http://www.ecis.com/~alizard/founding-fathers-xtianity.html

Founding Fathers' Insistence On Religious Toleration, Including Muslims And "Infidels"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/06/founding-fathers-advocacy-of-evenhanded.html

Deism And Founding Father Links

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/06/deism-and-founding-father-links.html

The Inquisition Executed Its Last Victim In 1826, A Spanish Schoolteacher Who Taught Deism

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-inquisition-executed-its-last.html