Wing-nuts are not merely wrong... they seek to perfect wrongness

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

I love how wing-nuts will lie when the truth would serve their argument better, and how their pet talking point examples to support their wing-nuttery are often the one example that most demolishes their argument.

For instance, a Congressman made a speech on the House floor in the 1990s arguing for English to be our official language. He concluded with, "We are one people with one language. That's why our motto is E Pluribus Unum."

True story.

So last night Sean Hannity was denouncing Obama for saying America was not founded as a Christian nation. He started into the usual, "Our founding fathers were so devout..." bit. His devastating proof of this was...


(drum-roll)

Thomas Jefferson was so devout he made his own personal Bible.

Hannity is right. Jefferson DID make his own Bible. Jefferson took a copy of the New Testament and cut out ever reference to a miracle, including the resurrection, because he considered those parts to be obvious bullshit.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. They really are mind-boggling.

[monmouth]

2. Please send this to Hannity. It's beautiful....n/t

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

5. Part of me suspects he already knows

I often wonder whether they say some of these things as a willful defiance of truth, 1984-style.

[cloudbase]

3. Everybody has to aspire to something,

even if it's perfecting wrongness.

[grantcart]

4. Adams was the only one of the founding fathers that would have what today is

considered a conventional Church life and he would be in very progressive wing of American protestantism.


on edit

yesterday I had a lengthy argument with a business associate about whether the founding fathers were 'capitalists'. Capitalism wasn't formulated until 1820 and only Hamilton ever expressed any ideologies that would be sympathetic with it.

None of the founding fathers were interested in passing large amounts of money to their offspring, and all of them succeeded in not doing it.

Franklin didn't bother taking a patent out on his universally used 'lightning rod' despite the fact that he could have made huge amounts of money with it.

Neither capatilists nor evangelicals and yet here we are!

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

6. Link to Jefferson Bible

The last chapter is a downer: "Pilate receives him back, scourges and delivers him to execution. His crucifixion, death and burial."

The End.


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THE Jefferson Bible
The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth
Extracted Textually from the Gospels

Compiled by Thomas Jefferson

Edited by Eyler Robert Coates, Sr.

. . . Thomas Jefferson believed that the ethical system of Jesus was the finest the world has ever seen. In compiling what has come to be called "The Jefferson Bible," he sought to separate those ethical teachings from the religious dogma and other supernatural elements that are intermixed in the account provided by the four Gospels. He presented these teachings, along with the essential events of the life of Jesus, in one continuous narrative.
This presentation of The Jefferson Bible offers the text as selected and arranged by Jefferson in two separate editions: one edition uses a revised King James Version of the biblical texts, corrected in accordance with the findings of modern scholarship; the second edition uses the original unrevised KJV. The actual verses of the Bible used for both editions are those chosen by Jefferson. Visitors should find the revised KJV text much easier to read and understand. Those seeking the precise English version Mr. Jefferson used when making his compilation can click on "Unrevised KJV text."

http://www.angelfire.com/co/JeffersonBible/