It's Sunday, and we all know how much I enjoy blaspheming on Sunday. But I gotta credit Evan for the idea on this one. It was all him.
What would happen if a president announced that he had a new Bible. He had taken bits of the New Testament, just the bits that he liked--the stuff that seemed the most plausible, and just thrown the rest out. What do you think the public response would be?
There would be howls of anger from the religious right, saying that this president was unpatriotic for spitting in the faces of our Christian forefathers. Am I wrong?
Just keep that in mind when you look at this: The Jefferson Bible.
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3 hours ago
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Interesting; I didn't know about the Jefferson Bible, but I did know that he was Deist rather than conventional Christian.
And it seems that Jefferson is credited with creating the phrase "separation of church and state": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson#Religious_views
Oh those wacky founding fathers.
Jefferson got a lot of flack in his day for his religious views, which is why he tried very hard to keep them secret. He became skilled at evading questions about his religion, even to his close friends. His version of the New Testament wasn't published until some time after his death and was revealed to very few before then.
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