Thomas Jefferson Nails Bigotry

"Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. education & free discussion are the antidotes of both." Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, August 1, 1816

Jefferson, like most Founding Fathers, revered The Enlightenment, subscribing to open-minded Deism, the religious disposition corresponding most neatly to Enlightenment principles with their high valuation of research, education and open, probing discussion.

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 Spaniard Who Taught Deism

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