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(More customer reviews)I was surprised to see what the product description fails to mention: this book wasn't simply published at the turn of the 20th century. Rather, if you look at an original first edition, at the bottom of the title page, it states as follows:
Washington
Government Printing Office
1904
This book wasn't simply published, it was published by the Congress of the United States of America, for the express purpose of being given to each freshman member of both houses of Congress.
Disagree with it if you wish, that is the right of every American, but the 1904 Congress were following the wishes of Thomas Jefferson, one of the founding fathers that so many today insist was a godless, deist, atheist of a man. And yet he wished for every freshman member of Congress to have in their possession the words of Christ. What does that say about the original intent of what Jefferson himself coined as 'the separation of church and state' in 1802?
Please, I would urge all Americans not only to read this brilliant collection, edited by Jefferson himself, but also the complete, original, unabridged writings of one of our most profound, brilliant, intelligent, and spiritual founding fathers and former presidents, Thomas Jefferson. So many questions about our country today, so many questions about the original intent upon the founding of our republic, can be answered by reading his original words. But more importantly, there's so much we can learn from him about what it means to be an American, from one of our greatest forefathers, one of our greatest examples of what it means to be a truly remarkable, intelligent, loving, tolerant, respectful, yet proud American citizen.
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In the early nineteenth century Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States and principal author of the Declaration of Independence, conceived the idea of extracting a gospel purified of what he saw as extraneous philosophical, mythological, and theological elements. To do so, he took verses from the four canonical gospels and arranged them into a single narrative, focusing on the actual words of Jesus. This work was never published during Jefferson's lifetime, but was inherited by his grandson and printed for the first time in the early twentieth century. The original bound manuscript, often referred to as "the Jefferson Bible," is held by the United States National Museum in Washington.
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