correct the wiki article about Jefferson, in which very clearly the opposite is written.

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No, I think you're confusing Jefferson's beliefs with what John Adams's followers accused him of in campaigning for the presidency, I think.

Just for the record: Jefferson didn't believe in equal time for Satanism or teaching prostitution in the schools either. ;)

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Jefferson was a pretty committed secularist (and certainly no orthodox Christian in any conventional meaning of the term), but I don't think you can really call him an atheist - even in his private writings he would frequently make reference to interventionist deities. It's possible that it's just turns of phrase that he inherited from the cultural mythos that he grew up in... but then again, it's also possible that he accepted at least part of said cultural mythos. In fact, it would be weird if it were any other way.

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