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Jefferson's 'Bible'

The author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, cut up the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and basically created his own bible. The parts he left out are numerous. The four gospels of the New Testament are approximately 165 pages long while Jefferson's Bible is about 46 pages. So, out of the four gospels, he cut out over 70% of text. Pretty smart. He got rid of all the supernatural text, miracles and the resurrection. He basically only kept ethical and moral codes. He may have gone too far for some people, cutting the bible as pleased him and his beliefs. But I would have gone further. I would have cut up the whole fucking thing. In case you're someone who frowns upon desecrating the good book, here's what I have to say. All moderate Christians have done this too. Probably not literally but figuratively, yes. Most Christians only consider the New Testament as the "Bible." The Old one is completely ignored, and for good reason. You either accept the whole or you don't accept it at all. One can't just do an extreme makeover on the holy book and then say, "I only believe these parts." That just proves that the Bible was written by men and lo and behold it's filled with mistakes and inconsistencies and a lot of immorality. With so many different versions used by different sects, the whole thing loses any kind of authority it ever had. The Bible is just a crock of shit. If its only redeeming quality is ethical and moral codes, then we can be done with it for good. These ethics and morals were no doubt borrowed or stolen from other authors and put into Jesus' mouth. So, then there would be no good reasons left to still mass produce this crock of shit. There are far better books on ethics and morality that have been written by great philosophers and these works kick the Bible's ass.

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The author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, cut up the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and basically created his own bible. The parts he left out are numerous. The four gospels of the New Testament are approximately 165 pages long while Jefferson's Bible is about 46 pages. So, out of the four gospels, he cut out over 70% of text. Pretty smart. He got rid of all the supernatural text, miracles and the resurrection. He basically only kept ethical and moral codes. He may have gone too far for some people, cutting the bible as pleased him and his beliefs. But I would have gone further. I would have cut up the whole fucking thing. In case you're someone who frowns upon desecrating the good book, here's what I have to say. All moderate Christians have done this too. Probably not literally but figuratively, yes. Most Christians only consider the New Testament as the "Bible." The Old one is completely ignored, and for good reason. You either accept the whole or you don't accept it at all. One can't just do an extreme makeover on the holy book and then say, "I only believe these parts." That just proves that the Bible was written by men and lo and behold it's filled with mistakes and inconsistencies and a lot of immorality. With so many different versions used by different sects, the whole thing loses any kind of authority it ever had. The Bible is just a crock of shit. If its only redeeming quality is ethical and moral codes, then we can be done with it for good. These ethics and morals were no doubt borrowed or stolen from other authors and put into Jesus' mouth. So, then there would be no good reasons left to still mass produce this crock of shit. There are far better books on ethics and morality that have been written by great philosophers and these works kick the Bible's ass.