Arkansas State Rep: ‘If Slavery Were So God-Awful, Why Didn’t Jesus Or Paul Condemn It?’

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26. See the Jefferson Bible

Don't know if you are familiar with the Jefferson Bible but I find it to be one of the most important facts that almost no one knows.

Jefferson edited the bible to exclude everything but the actual words of Jesus. He literally took a knife to it and pasted it back together. In the process he cut away all of Paul and the references to the supernatural stuff. What was left was the philosophy of Jesus which reads like a progressive's handbook.

In doing so he compared the words of Jesus amongst the rest as "diamonds in a dung hill". He had an active disdain for Paul and the rest.

The remarkable thing about the Jefferson Bible (as it became known) is that it was handed out to new members of Congress from 1904 through the 1950's. Can you imagine handing out an edited version of the bible to Congress these days? Heads would explode.

The Jefferson Bible is the perfect distillation of what is problematic in modern Christianity in America. Most of the culture war problems we face are with what I call "bookend" Christians. Those are the ones that want to ignore Jesus and focus on Genesis, Paul and Revelations.