The Jewmanist

And now for something completely different:

As seen at Pharyngula.

I started Coming Out Godless on Blogger. Fearing the inevitable of having to copy and paste every story, I decided to stick with Blogger. Being a relatively familiar with code, I used KompoZer to create the rest of the site, and used a Blogger template for the “Stories” page, hence why they’re not identical. I love Google in many ways but, truth be told, Blogger is nothing compared to Wordpress (when you pay for the domain and hosting).

So, sometime eventually soon (I like using qualifiers that don’t put me on a deadline), I want to revamp the site. Do you have any constructive suggestions? I am working on a few ideas, but I want to get as much input before I go ahead and make any major site changes. There will be more details to follow.

I’ve always heard how our Founding Fathers were of a more deist persuasion rather than being a “real” Christian. Apparently, Jefferson went as far as to snip out the good parts and make his own “wee little book”, consisting of only 46 pages, that he entitled “The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth”.

Making good on a promise to a friend to summarize his views on Christianity, Thomas Jefferson set to work with scissors, snipping out every miracle and inconsistency he could find in the New Testament Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Jefferson deemed this shortened version of the Bible as “the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man”.

Friends dubbed it the Jefferson Bible. It remains perhaps the most comprehensive expression of what the nation’s third president and principal author of the Declaration of Independence found ethically interesting about the Gospels and their depiction of Jesus.

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