[ExI] Religions and violence.

[darren shawn greer]

> Ever hear of the Jefferson Bible? One day he took a pair of scissors to
> his Bible and cut out all the supernatural stuff and all the things he
> thought was morally repugnant, he then pasted the remaining parts back
> together.


I like what Carl Sagan called the Judeo-Christian Bible in Contact: half barbarian history, half fairy-tale.
Darren


"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation."

-Herbert Spencer






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> From: jonkc at bellsouth.net
> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:11:53 -0400
> To: extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
> Subject: Re: [ExI] Religions and violence.
>
> On Aug 9, 2010, at 4:52 PM, Jebadiah Moore wrote:
>
> even Jefferson at least was a deist
>
> Ever hear of the Jefferson Bible? One day he took a pair of scissors to
> his Bible and cut out all the supernatural stuff and all the things he
> thought was morally repugnant, he then pasted the remaining parts back
> together. He referred to the process as picking out "diamonds in a
> dunghill". The result was a book only 46 pages long, you can buy a copy
> at Amazon:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Jefferson-Bible-Thomas/product-reviews/B000I0RSQ6/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
>
> John K Clark
>
>
>
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