Thomas Jefferson was an Orthodox Christian

[Cain]

Thomas Jefferson is one of my all-time favorite rapists.

 

[Darat]

Those of us who have studied history know that Jefferson had two distinct and contrasting personas: by day, mild-mannered statesman and writer. By night, he was Roxxie Toxxic, the wildest working girl in all of Virginia! With a six-shooter in her garter and a vinyl skirt up to here, Roxxie took names and kicked ass, keeping order in the Commonwealth, yo. Criminals learned to stay off her turf, because everyone knew that making trouble could be Toxxic. Coming this fall.

Will this be in 3D?

 

[Lowpro]

I was going to post my thread but some other bozo beat me to it.

 

[Beerina]

Oops. Guess I should have made that a small-o "orthodox".

And a small-c christian!

 

[BenBurch]

And a small-c christian!

Anybody who has ever read his revision of the Bible might even object to the small-c form of the word, as the actual words of Jesus don't make the case for him being more than a prophet.

 

[Doubt]

I never realised that he was Catholic!

Orthodox /= Catholic.

They tend to get a bit upset about that since the great schism around 1054.

 

[Ausmerican]

Orthodox /= Catholic.

They tend to get a bit upset about that since the great schism around 1054.

So, too soon then?

 

[Doubt]

So, too soon then?

Needs another thousand years......

 

[BenBurch]

Needs another thousand years......

Neither will exist by then.

 

[Puppycow]

Poor David Barton, it seems that his publisher has recalled his book after discovering that it contains some inaccuracies.

Christian Right Historian David Barton in Freefall Over ‘Jefferson Lies’

At the Rediscovering God in America conference in 2011, Mike Huckabee gave an impassioned introduction to David Barton, the religious right’s favorite revisionist historian. “I almost wish that there would be something like a simultaneous telecast and all Americans would be forced, forced—at gunpoint, no less—to listen to every David Barton message,” he said. “And I think our country would be better for it.”

. . .

But now, suddenly, Barton’s reputation is in freefall, and not just among the secular historians and journalists who have been denouncing him for ages. (I’m among them; I wrote extensively about Barton in my 2006 book Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism.) Earlier this week, the evangelical World Magazine published a piece about the growing number of Christian conservative scholars questioning his work. Then, on Thursday, Thomas Nelson, the world’s largest Christian publisher, recalled Barton’s most recent book, the bestselling The Jefferson Lies, saying it had “lost confidence in the book’s details.”

For decades, Barton has tried to write Enlightenment deism out of American history, but it seems that by attempting to turn the famously freethinking Thomas Jefferson into a pious precursor of the modern Christian right, he finally went too far. “Books like that make Christian scholarship look bad,” says Warren Throckmorton, an professor of psychology at Grove City College, a conservative Christian school in Pennsylvania. “If that’s what people are passing off as Christian scholarship, there are claims in there that are easily proved false.”

 

[GodMark2]

Orthodox /= Catholic.

They tend to get a bit upset about that since the great schism around 1054.

So, too soon then?

Needs another thousand years......

Neither will exist by then.

Finger crossed...

 

[MattusMaximus]

Poor David Barton, it seems that his publisher has recalled his book after discovering that it contains some inaccuracies.

Christian Right Historian David Barton in Freefall Over ‘Jefferson Lies’

Good on those evangelical scholars for having standards

Now watch for them to be denounced as heretics...

 

[balrog666]

So ... someone wrote a book about Jefferson without reading his autobiography or any of the other biographiers and their sources? What a good plan for a propagandist!

 

[Noztradamus]

Greek, Russian, Armenian, Serbian, Syrian, or other?

 

[hgc]

... organized by Big Incense and Big Stained Glass...

Otherwise known as France. And Bonnie Prince Charlie was still alive time.

 

[UnrepentantSinner]

Poor David Barton, it seems that his publisher has recalled his book after discovering that it contains some inaccuracies.

Christian Right Historian David Barton in Freefall Over ‘Jefferson Lies’

At least they have the shame that apparently many Creationists lack.

 

[Eddie Dane]

Looks like his new tome 'Darwin was a creationist' will be a self published e-book.

 

[Polaris]

Looks like his new tome 'Darwin was a creationist' will be a self published e-book.

And more people will read the packaging their toilet paper came in, in a perfect world.