Had he lived dur­ing the Inqui­si­tion, Thomas Jef­fer­son would have been burned at the stake. His ideas about Jesus and Chris­tian­i­ty were far from ortho­dox. A prod­uct of the Enlight­en­ment, Jef­fer­son believed that every­thing, includ­ing reli­gion, should be exam­ined in the light of rea­son. When Jef­fer­son exam­ined the Gospels he came away with a strong­ly divid­ed opin­ion. “I find … Con­tin­ue read­ing Dis­cov­er Thomas Jefferson’s Cut-and-Paste Ver­sion of the Bible, and Read the Curi­ous Edi­tion Online