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Theistic rationalists believe that God plays an active role in human life, rendering prayer effective. They accept parts of the Bible as divinely inspired, ...

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Theistic rationalists believe that God plays an active role in human life, rendering prayer effective. They accept parts of the Bible as divinely inspired, ...

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I am not a theistic rationalist. I am a Jeffersonian rational theist.

Rational Theism is poetically for me as defined by Thomas Jefferson when he wrote about his belief that everything in the universe had a wholly material existence rather than there being both material and spiritual worlds.

Jefferson insisted that such matters of dogma were not critical; telling one correspondent that on these

“I … reposed my head on that pillow of ignorance which a benevolent creator has made so soft for us, knowing how much we should be forced to use it.”

1. ^ Jefferson to Isaac Story, December 5, 1801, in PTJ, 36:30. Transcription available at Founders Online.

I do not accept parts of the Bible as divinely inspired, ...

Neither did Jefferson.

 

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Thomas Jefferson when he wrote about his belief that everything in the universe had a wholly material existence rather than there being both material and spiritual worlds.

That's called atheism.

 

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