'It is said,' but it is not so,' T. Jefferson did NOT begin with a prayer every day.

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3. But he did make his own bible, getting rid of the stuff he didn't like

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/why-thomas-jefferson-created-his-own-bible-180975716/]

https://archive.org/details/jeffersonbibleli0000unse/page/n5/mode/2up]

Jefferson, who had suffered great criticism for his religious beliefs, once said that the care he had taken to reduce the Gospels to their core message should prove that he was in fact, a “real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus.”