My Birthday Wish For Thomas Jefferson: An End To The Religious Right’s Lies About Him

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Source: The Wall of Separation
April 13th, 2011
By Rob Boston

Today is Thomas Jefferson’s birthday, and my modest gift to him is to debunk the latest David Barton nonsense about our third president.

Barton, a Religious Right historical revisionist who promotes discredited “Christian nation” propaganda, has lately taken aim at one of Jefferson’s most famous projects: The so-called “Jefferson Bible.” As usual, Barton’s version has only a passing relationship with the truth.

Formally titled The Life and Morals of Jesus Christ, the Jefferson Bible is an intriguing document. Over several years, Jefferson did a cut-and-paste rewrite of the Gospels, removing the portions he did not agree with. In Jefferson’s retelling, there is no virgin birth, no miracles, no claims of Jesus’ divinity and no resurrection.

According to Barton, Jefferson didn’t remove this material because he disagreed with it. Rather, he was trying to produce a version of the Gospels that could be used to evangelize Native Americans.

What utter tripe.

LINK: http://blog.au.org/2011/04/13/my-birthday-wish-for-thomas-jefferson-an-end-to-the-religious-right’s-lies-about-him/?utm_source=au-homepage&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Recently-on-homepage
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Many more articles on Barton at the People for the American Way website: http://www.pfaw.org/search/node/barton

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1. My birthday wish would be that Jefferson's ghost appears on tv

at the Republicans national convention and started beating republican ass. That would be awesome.

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2. LOL! Ah, yeah...

:D