In an 1822 letter to the physician Benjamin Waterhouse, Thomas Jefferson expressed his confidence that traditional Christianity in the young United States was giving way to a more enlightened faith, much like Jefferson's own in its rejection of the divinity of Jesus Christ.I trust, he wrote, that there is not a young man now living in the U.S. who will not die an Unitarian.
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