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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Apr 27, 2008, at 10:57 AM, Robert Walton wrote:

> >  Jefferson kept his
> questioning of religion quiet during his political life.

THOMAS JEFFERSON:
I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never  
attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I  
am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced  
a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our  
lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged.

1816, in a letter to Mrs. H. Harrison Smith
ABRAHAM LINCOLN:
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my  
religion.