I can honestly say that I've never read the Jefferson Bible before today and that my preconceptions of him being a Godly founding father are starting to fade away. Was he afraid of the truth? Is that why he didn't talk about angels, prophecies, or miracles that much if at all? I did a little background research on Jefferson and there's a lot of controversy about him. Of course, there is his famous quote, "I am a sect by myself, as far as I know." He was a deist, meaning he didn't believe in the trinity, and consequently believed Jesus was not God but a moral teacher. Why else would he exclude prophetic passages and miraculous signs from his "Bible"? Honestly, I'm looking forward to our class discussion tomorrow and hopefully some of my questions will be answered. Jefferson may not have done this intentionally, but people who take important sections out of a text just because they don't agree with them are, in my opinion, cowardly. Maybe its like what Plato wanted, the lessons of the epics without the blood and gore.
Feeling a little confused and disappointed...
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