Skip Navigation

The Daily Dish - 2006-2011 archives for The Daily Dish, featuring Andrew Sullivan

Jefferson and the Christianists

By The Daily Dish
Oct 22 2006, 9:09 AM ET

I asked what today's religious right would think of the great Founding Father's view of faith. The blog, Civil Commotion, fills the picture in. Today's Christianists despise Jefferson, and the religious liberty and conscience he championed. Here's Albert Mohler:

Jefferson’s confidence in his ability to extract a 'real' Jesus from the Gospels is supreme evidence of hubris and arrogance.

And here's what American evangelicalism used to be about:

Sir David Frost: Is this still a Christian Country?

Billy Graham: No! We’re not a Christian Country. We’ve never been a Christian Country. We’re a secular Country, by our constitution. In which Christians live and which many Christians have a voice. But we’re not a Christian Country.

Bill Graham and Thomas Jefferson or Albert Mohler and James Dobson? I know which two I pick as true representatives of Christian faith.



Presented by

More at The Atlantic

The Oldest Cat Video of All Time? The Oldest Cat Video of All Time?
A Hauntingly Beautiful Zombie Love Story A Zombie Love Story
Greece Is on Pace for the Worst Recession in Modern History Why the Greek Recession Could Get Much Worse
Adulthood, Delayed: What Has the Recession Done to Millennials? Adulthood, Delayed: What's the Recession Done to Millennials?
Beating History: Why Today's Rising Powers Can't Copy the West Why Rising Economies Can't Copy the West
Special Report
The Civil War National Portrait Gallery The Civil War
President Obama reflects on what Lincoln means to him and to America, in an introduction to our special issue. Read more ›
View All Correspondents

The Biggest Story in Photos

World Press Photo Contest 2012

Feb 15, 2012

Subscribe Now

SAVE 59%! 10 issues JUST $2.45 PER COPY

Facebook

Newsletters

Sign up to receive our free newsletters

(sample)

(sample)

(sample)

(sample)