Book of Jeremiah
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Jeremiah -
Thanks for the great posts. Sometimes, we lose sight of the forest. It's nice to have a touchstone to return to.
Have a great day!
35 Founding Father Quotes Conservative Christians Will Hate
These are hardly the words of men who allegedly believed that America should be a Christian nation governed by the Bible as conservatives constantly claim. On the contrary, the great majority of the Founders believed strongly in separation of church and state. So keep in mind that this country has survived for over two centuries under the principle of separation and it is only now when conservatives are attempting to destroy that very cornerstone that we find America becoming ever more divided and more politically charged than ever before. If this right-wing faction has their way, America as we know it will cease to exist and the freedoms we have enjoyed because of the Constitution will erode.
35 Founding Father Quotes Conservative Christians Will Hate Addicting Info
The whole history of these books [the Gospels] is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills.
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, January 24, 1814
LOL - a fully discredited prevarication by secular activists.
Instead of simply regurgitating political pap, you might want to check out the veracity of your posts.
Martin Luther King Jr... were he alive today he would be on the front lines rebuking Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton for what they are doing
The whole history of these books [the Gospels] is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills.
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, January 24, 1814
Jefferson was a deist - that is, he believed in God, but he didn't believe in the 'miracles' described in the Bible. The quote you show is a result of a question from John Adams during his second term campaign.
"About his first Jesus book, "The Philosophy of Jesus," Jefferson wrote: "It is a document in proof that I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus, very different from the Platonists, who call me infidel and themselves Christians." In a separate letter, he asserted again the authenticity of his faith: "I am a Christian, in the only sense he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence; & believing he never claimed any other."
Read more at Beliefnet Presents Separating Diamonds from the Dunghill Founding Faith Steven Waldman - Beliefnet.com
You are being intellectually dishonest to remove the quote from context and try to use it to, somehow, portray as a non-believer.