Comments on: Thomas Jefferson’s Bible (UPDATED)

By: Evan

Evan — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:57:47 +0000

Some redneck things are totally okay.

You just have to keep them in perspective.

By: Joe C

Joe C — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:17:06 +0000

I’m sure he did. Can’t win em all over…including myself, who thinks religious systems in general are a terrible idea. You know all that “the world is bad” stuff in the Bible? Little know fact that the word for “world” in greek is “kosmos” which primarily means “a system”, like of how things work. So use that most common understanding to interpret those verses…and voila…religious ’systems’ are condemned outright.

Anyways, my weekend was swell…cookouts beer and fireworks. The usual. I get more and more redneck each year, I gotta get out of here!

Peace

By: Evan

Evan — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:05:48 +0000

Oh, and Jefferson openly disdained Christianity as a religious system.

By: Evan

Evan — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:03:27 +0000

I dunno, i’ve just seen some scholarship that suggests that some of the miracle language was more politically subversive in nature than we would realize reading with 20th century eyes. As usual, I plead the “i dunno” card.

The 4th was fine. Fireworks and traffic jams. The usual.
Yours?

By: Joe C

Joe C — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:29:50 +0000

Still, many of founding fathers were Christians of varying backgrounds. Most of the rest were diests with much ascent and homage paid to the morals of the Christian religion. Thems are the facts on the ground, brudda. It really doesn’t mean much that they were…it’s just…well, they had respect for the fact that man (governments) don’t give us freedom, God does.

I’ll believe the facts I learned in college US history, in BOSTON, and use that as reality, you know? I didn’t get edumacated in the south, nor do I come from the south, so that don’t work on me…so…now what? Yanno?

I understand that I currently live in Oklahoma, and for that reason, most of the time, I purposely let my grammar slip….because well…I dun care.

As for the miracles, COME ON. If you don’t have the miracles, now what do we have? A God who can’t even heal the blind? I mean…lets be critical of the text…the many miracles that Jesus did, as written in the Gospels, were written as a series of events, not a poem, allegory, or metaphor, not even close, no one would read it that way. It’s either you believe they happened and confirm who Jesus claimed to be, or not. Faith book, right? That’s my take.

How was your Fourth btw?