Picking out the diamonds from the dung hill.
Dunghill would be Bullshit in our generation.
Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 24 January 1814 “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.“ TJ-14JAN24-dunghillsI
There is debate about the specific beliefs of these founders.
There is no debate that Jefferson did not believe the Bible was the Word of God.
The third president had a secret: his carefully edited version of the New Testament.
www.history.com
Prepared near the end of the ex-president’s life, the
Jefferson Bible, as it is now known, included no signs of Jesus’s divinity. In two volumes,
The Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth and
The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, Jefferson edited out biblical passages he considered over the-top or that offended his Enlightenment-era sense of reason. He left behind a carefully condensed vision of the Bible—one that illustrated his own complex relationship with Christianity.
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#6,876 I am a Christian - A Jeffersonian rational theist Christian if you know what that means. I love the majority of American Catholics who vote Democrat. I am thankful for the Jesus and BLM Black church community for its major contribution to Saving American Democracy from MAGA attack since 2015 when the racist rich anti-Jesus bastard rode down the elevator demanding to see the first black President’s birth certificate to draw attention to big donors and the white Christian mob of voters to his run for POTUS. I love every Christian who loves the Beatitudes if Jesus.as
Rye Catcher has been so kind to post them here so often:
Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 24 January 1814 “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.“ TJ-14JAN24-dunghills
Founders Online: Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 24 January 1814