Evangelical scoundrels

[texaslawchick]

There was an interesting interview this morning on NPR's Morning Edition. Chris Geeslin is an evangelical Christian minister (sheesh, everyone has a website these days) in Frederick, Maryland. And once upon a time, a very active member of his flock was a man named Edwin Buckham

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come back to the vision of the founding fathers

[datawhorevoyeur]

Like Jefferson, who re-wrote the Bible?

*snerk*

Re: come back to the vision of the founding fathers

[cosmicbob]

The frothing-at-the-mouth fundies fail to understand Jefferson at all. If they realized he wrote his own version of the bible, they would have apoplexy.

Re: come back to the vision of the founding fathers

[datawhorevoyeur]

Indeed. Seems like ol' Tom was into the Arian heresy. :-D

http://www.angelfire.com/co/JeffersonBible/jeffbsyl.html

I am moreover averse to the communication of my religious tenets to the public, because it would countenance the presumption of those who have endeavored to draw them before that tribunal, and to seduce public opinion to erect itself into that inquisition over the rights of conscience which the laws have so justly proscribed. It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. It behooves him, too, in his own case, to give no example of concession, betraying the common right of independent opinion, by answering questions of faith which the laws have left between God and himself.