Why would a loving God send people to Hell?

[Liberal Insights]

23. Was it "insane" for Thomas Jefferson to believe the following:

"Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern, which have come under my observation, none appear to me so pure as that of Jesus. . . A more beautiful or precious morsel of ethics I have never seen."
"The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of it's benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science, and the freest expansion of the human mind."
– Thomas Jefferson to Moses Robinson, 1801. ME 10:237
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He told John Adams that he was rescuing the Philosophy of Jesus and the "pure principles which he taught," from the "artificial vestments in which they have been muffled by priests, who have travestied them into various forms as instruments of riches and power for themselves." After having selected from the evangelists "the very words only of Jesus," he believed "there will be found remaining the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man."
See the introduction to his "bible" which he created by cutting out what he considered the "good" parts of the Gospels, leaving behind what he didn't approve of, and pasting what he liked into his own version of the bible:
The Jefferson Bible - The Life and Morals of Jesus


from my http://LiberalsLikeChrist.Org/TheJesusMyth page.