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To: Father Terrence who wrote (12336)	7/20/2001 4:25:45 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 59480

Just stumbled on this rather fascinating glimpse into Jefferson's mind: How Jefferson cut and pasted the Bible to his taste By Richard N. Ostling, Associated Press, 7/20/2001 t must have been a peculiar sight: the author of the Declaration of Independence, seated in his Monticello mansion, cutting the Bible into pieces. But such was the pastime of Thomas Jefferson during his last decade, reviving a project he had begun while serving as the nation's third president. Driven by a desire to select what he considered the most attractive and authentic material from the Gospels, Jefferson pasted up 46 pages of his favored passages. He took translations of the Bible from several languages - Greek, Latin, French, and English - and arranged his selections in parallel columns. The English version has now been reissued as ''The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth'' by Beacon Press, an arm of the Unitarian Universalist Association. Jefferson's religious outlook fit the budding Unitarian movement of his day, although he never formally affiliated with it. The founding father's treatment of the Bible was radical. The Old Testament was of no interest to Jefferson, who regarded Jesus as a reformer of ''the depraved religion of his own country.'' Jefferson further repudiated the writings of the Apostle Paul, whom he considered the ''first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus.'' He also eliminated much of the material from the four Gospels, whose compilers he castigated as ''groveling authors'' with ''feeble minds.'' Jefferson censored any hint that Jesus was God, as well as all supernatural events. ''No miracles, no metaphysics, no mystery,'' summarizes Martin E. Marty of the University of Chicago. All that's left are parables and aphorisms. ''He made a Socrates out of Jesus,'' Marty said. boston.com