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« on: January 12, 2012, 01:48:18 PM »
My Take: How Thomas Jefferson’s secret Bible might have changed history
By Mitch Horowitz, Special to CNN

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(CNN) – Imagine the following scenario: A U.S. president is discovered to be spending his spare time taking a razor to the New Testament, cutting up and re-pasting those passages of the Gospels that he considered authentic and morally true and discarding all the rest.

Gone are the virgin birth, divine healings, exorcisms and the resurrection of the dead, all of which the chief executive dismissed as “superstitions, fanaticisms and fabrications.”

Such an episode occurred, although the revised version of Scripture remained unseen for nearly seven decades after its abridger’s death. Thomas Jefferson intended it that way.
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« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2012, 01:59:39 PM »
Ugh.  Still one of my favorite presidents.

Cutting out the virgin birth, miracles, etc?  What was left?  The genealogies in Luke and Matthew?
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« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2012, 02:08:11 PM »
Ah...the ultimate reformer....
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« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2013, 09:23:54 PM »
Thomas Jefferson is back in Washington -- in the form of a new edition of the "Jefferson Bible" distributed to politicians by a national humanist organization.
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The so-called "Jefferson Bible" was handcrafted by the second president with a razor blade and a paste pot. He cut what he considered supernatural events -- the virgin birth, miracles and healings -- from the story of Jesus' life and pasted together what remained. In letters to John Adams, Jefferson described this as tearing down the "artificial scaffolding" from Jesus' teachings.

A new version published by Humanist Press takes Jefferson's idea further. In addition to Jefferson's text, "A Jefferson Bible For the 21st Century" includes what its editors consider the best and the worst of the sacred texts of other world religions -- the Hebrew Tanakh, the Quran, the Bhagavad Gita, Buddhist Sutras, and the Book of Mormon.
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« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2013, 11:30:44 PM »
The ultimate lukewarm.
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