Deists were often merely atheists behind a mask, and therefore anathema, pariahs, extreme radicals, to every other religious group, tolerant or intolerant, among the colonists.
An extremist takeover, vying among other factions, in a fragmenting or fragmentary, and a collapsing or collapsed social order, or area of preexisting disorder, or war, is not necessarily new.
One thinks for example of the Germans sending Lenin into Russia, during WWI.
The analogy between Lenin and Jefferson is not very far fetched, at all, in comparative terms. Robespierre, whom Jefferson praised, is another example.
This post is dedicated to Hannah Arendt.
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