> HA! I'm kind of embarassed to say that all the facts I've been > beating you down with I basically learned in a musical, 1776.
I'm kind of embarassed to say you haven't presentented any facts. > But now for the really funny part (not to you, Sam): > > Well, after I responded to you mistaken notion that Jefferson was > Christian, I decided I better do a quick Wiki check on the Jefferson > Bible. I bet you, Sam, found exactly what I did: No, I read past the first line. > "In an 1803 letter to Joseph Priestley, Jefferson states that he > conceived the idea of writing his view of the "Christian System" in a > conversation with Dr. Benjamin Rush during 179899. He proposes > beginning with a review of the morals of the ancient philosophers, > moving on to the ethics of the Jews, and concluding with the > "principles of a pure deism" taught by Jesus, "omitting the question > of his deity." "I abuse the priests indeed," he wrote in 1815, "who have so much abused the pure and holy doctrines of their master, and who have laid me under no obligation to reticence as to the tricks of their trade. The genuine system of Jesus, and the artificial structure they have erected, to make them the instruments of wealth, power and pre-eminence to themselves, are as distinct things in my view as light and darkness: and while I have classed them with soothsayers and necramancer, I place him among the greatest of the reformers of morals, and scourges of priest-craft that have ever existed. They felt him as such, and never rested until they had silenced him by death." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:262305 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
