...The historical Jefferson hated fanaticism about as much as he hated religious leaders who arrogated to themselves a superior knowledge of God...
...Jefferson was a pretty lousy prophet, as things turned out. For one, he was convinced that Americans were too sensible to allow the religious battles of Old Europe to affect their national development–late in life, he predicted that within a generation or two, every American would die a Unitarian. It would seem difficult, if not impossible, to fit Jefferson (who was attacked as an atheist in his own time) into evangelical Protestantism; but that hasn’t stopped the self-taught “historian” David Barton, a collector and worshipper of all things founder-begot, who just a few years ago came up with a book titled “The Jefferson Lies,” so as to inform his wishful-thinking flock that Thomas Jefferson believed with all his heart in the efficacy of prayer and in a God who continues to take an active part in human affairs...
http://www.salon.com/2015/04/13/thomas_jeffersons_torturous_afterlife_how_ronald_reagan_and_the_tea_party_try_to_steal_his_legacy/
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