Thomas Jefferson wrote his own version of The Bible, which included
ONLY the teachings and words of Jesus, eliminating all the allegorical
and often violence filled stories in the Old Testament.
You should really learn about this, so you will appear to know what
you are talking about.
In addition, Jesus may very well have been gay or bi.
On 2/5/11, Mark <markmkahle@gmail.com> wrote:
> MJ,
>
> It is paraphrased from the Declaration of Independence........."Nature's
> God"....
>
> He (Jefferson) stated this belief explicitly in a letter to John Adams in
> which he wrote that the moral code of Jesus was "the most sublime and
> benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man."[8] Jefferson
> even made a collection of Jesus' moral teachings from the Bible which seemed
> to be in their original simplicity. He used this collection as an ethical
> guide to his own life."
>
> In another letter to John Adams, Jefferson wrote that he believed in God
> because of the argument from design:
>
> I hold (without appeal to revelation) that when we take a view of the
> Universe, in it's [sic] parts general or particular, it is impossible for
> the human mind not to perceive and feel a conviction of design, consummate
> skill, and indefinite power in every atom of it's [sic] composition. . . it
> is impossible, I say, for the human mind not to believe that there is . . .
> a fabricator of all things.[13]
> After applying his faculty of reason, in which he placed much faith,
> Jefferson found that he had to believe in a creator.
>
> "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it
> is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new
> Government..."
>
> I found it self explicative.... But here are the cites in the authors own
> words and definitions.
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 12:16 PM, MJ <michaelj@america.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> Whenever any Government stops listening to the people (majority) and
>>> the will of the Christian God they have the right and duty to change
>>> or destroy it by any means possible.......
>>>
>>
>> What does 'majority' or 'Christian God' have to do with it?
>>
>> Regard$,
>> --MJ
>>
>> "It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious or
>> to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly. Government
>> should be repressive no further than is necessary to secure liberty by
>> protecting the equal rights of each from aggression...[when] governmental
>> prohibitions extend beyond this line they are in danger of defeating the
>> very ends they are intended to serve" --Henry George
>>
>>
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