[Cronos]

By tearing out the resurrection from the story of Christ, this becomes utter psycho-babble imho

[Mount Athos]

He really detested Christianity.

I was most interested in his writings first cheering on the french revolution, then later utterly horrified at the result. That’s the fruit and endgame of such godless philosophy, predecessor of stalinism and so on

[lefty-lie-spy]

TJ was a smart fellow. He took out all the fiction.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

This is probably why Satan came into his life and he formed the Democrat party.

[Pinkbell]

When you make Jesus into a mere man and disregard the fact that he is the Son of God who died for our sins and was raised from the dead, you destroy the basis for Christianity. Thomas Jefferson was not a Christian.

[Berlin_Freeper]

This is something homosexuals do.

[sueuprising]

Martha Washington detested Jefferson on the basis of his heretical opinions. Of course, so did the Adamses. They connected Jefferson’s atheism with that of the French. During the latter part of the 18th century when war with France was looming, the American public believed that the French would forced secularism and atheism down their throats. War was avoided, but what is interesting is despite Jefferson’s reputation in the inner circle as a man with no religion and an enemey to Christianity, he won the 1800 election. I suppose the voting public considered him a friend of the common man more than they did Adams, and winced over his unorthodox beliefs or simply had not heard of them. Jefferson had better PR I think.

[sueuprising]

Martha Washington detested Jefferson on the basis of his heretical opinions. Of course, so did the Adamses. They connected Jefferson’s atheism with that of the French. During the latter part of the 18th century when war with France was looming, the American public believed that the French would forced secularism and atheism down their throats. War was avoided, but what is interesting is despite Jefferson’s reputation in the inner circle as a man with no religion and an enemey to Christianity, he won the 1800 election. I suppose the voting public considered him a friend of the common man more than they did Adams, and winced over his unorthodox beliefs or simply had not heard of them. Jefferson had better PR I think.

[JSDude1]

Too bad-if only T. Jefferson had repented and come to faith in Christ (only God knows maybe he did) he’d be in heaven, he may have been a founding father, but he was blasphemous. J.S.

[bremenboy]

The only thing I would agree with from the article is (he was not born in a manger) that statement is true. Jesus was born in a barn and laid in a manger. Mary would have to be very very small to give birth in a manger. I have heard too many people say he was born in a manger. They are so silly

[nonsporting]

It's misleading of Stephen Prothero (professor of religion at Boston University) to call Jefferson's book a "Bible". The author says: "To readers familiar with the New Testament, this Jefferson Bible, as it is popularly called, begins and ends abruptly." Popularly called by whom? (atheist religion professors) I own a copy: it's a collections of sayings of Jesus. It's never represented as a "Bible."

This same author says:

But we craft new Bibles too, from the Book of Mormon of the Latter-day Saints to the Christian Scientists' "Science and Health with a Key to the Scriptures" and Elizabeth Cady Stanton's "Woman's Bible." Jefferson was out in front of all of these efforts. Here, too, he was a declarer of independence.

These are not Bibles, "new" or otherwise. I bet he'd call this a "Bible":