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Archaic, Barbaric Beliefs

If by intervening you mean divine providence...well, Deists believed in divine providence:

"...Classical deism held that a human's relationship with God was impersonal: God created the world and set it in motion but does not actively intervene in individual human affairs but rather through divine providence. What this means is that God will give humanity such things as reason and compassion but this applies to all and not to individual intervention....

Deism is generally considered to have declined as an influential school of thought by around 1800.... It is probably more accurate, however, to say that deism evolved into, and contributed to, other religious movements. The term deist became rarely used, but deist beliefs, ideas, and influences remained. They can be seen in 19th-century liberal British theology and in the rise of Unitarianism, which adopted many of deism's beliefs and ideas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deism#History_of_classical_deism

Jefferson converted to Deist philosophy in while attending College of William & Mary (1760 - 1762). Around 1800, Deism's influence started to wane and soon evolved into Unitarianism. Jefferson declared himself to be a Unitarian in 1823.


"...Avery Dulles, a leading Catholic theologian, states that while at the College of William & Mary, "under the influence of several professors, he [Jefferson] converted to the deist philosophy".[20] Dulles concludes:

“ In summary, then, Jefferson was a deist because he believed in one God, in divine providence, in the divine moral law, and in rewards and punishments after death; but did not believe in supernatural revelation. He was a Christian deist because he saw Christianity as the highest expression of natural religion and Jesus as an incomparably great moral teacher. He was not an orthodox Christian because he rejected, among other things, the doctrines that Jesus was the promised Messiah and the incarnate Son of God. Jefferson's religion is fairly typical of the American form of deism in his day. ”

Dulles concurs with historian Stephen Webb, who states that Jefferson's frequent references to "Providence" indicate his Deism, as "most eighteenth-century deists believed in providence".[80]

The historian of religion Sydney E. Ahlstrom says "One religious movement which enjoyed a season of popularity, and great prestige during the era, in America as in France, was the cult of reason." Ahlstrom calls it "rational religion or deism".[81]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Thomas_Jefferson#Jefferson_and_Deism

It was more than providence. Jefferson said God led Israel of old into a land flowing with milk and honey. That's divine intervention, and that's clearly not deism.

But thanks for your views.
 
It was more than providence. Jefferson said God led Israel of old into a land flowing with milk and honey. That's divine intervention, and that's clearly not deism.

But thanks for your views.
Jefferson didn't take the bible literally and probably meant it as a parable of divine providence. ie: God gave man the ability to reason..and Moses used reason to convince the Israelites to leave Egypt. Had they known they'd be spending the next forty years wandering the desert, they probably wouldn't have gone.
 
Jefferson believed in the supernatural. And he believed that God is active in the affairs of men and nations.

“Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have
removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the
people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are
not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my
country when I reflect that God is just; and that His justice
cannot sleep forever.” (Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781)

“I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we
are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old, from their
native land and planted them in a country flowing with all
the necessities and comforts of life.” (Monday, March 4,
1805, in his 2nd Inaugural Address)

Jefferson was a great political leader, but his theology left a lot to be desired.
Blah blah you've said those things before and they were meaningless then as well as now.
 
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