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I wasn't aware that this was ited from washington's farewell address

I don't remember bringing that up in discussion.

See but not you have admitted your bent.

It is a Christian fabrication.

So when you say if is a Christiano fabrication what exactly do you mean? Was this made up by Roman Catholics? Maybe Presbyterians? Anglicans? See I'm not sure that there was or is some secret group called "Christians" that sat down and made this and other quotes up.

Now we know that the quote didn't just materialize and we suspect that someone made the quote so maybe we could search for the first use of the offending quote rather than make a statement that ascribes an entity that does not exist the way you imply. The groups that are called by Christs name generally will not sit at a table with each other, much less agree to design quotes from Washington and Jefferson.

I wasn't aware that this was ited from washington's farewell address

Both of these are known false quotes that have been thoroughly discredited. Both of the gentlemen did say some good things about religion, so why not use those quotes that actually exist?

So when you say if is a Christiano fabrication what exactly do you mean?

It means simply that they're urban legend. Whatever motives I may have, the quotes are still false, and the first Jefferson quote is still out of context since it was slamming Christianity as practiced in his day.

BTW, if Jefferson says the Bible is important, do you mean a Bible like yours or the one Jefferson wrote, where he left Jesus' basic moral teachings and removed all the mystical references that he thought were garbage?