{"id":313,"date":"2013-01-03T10:10:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T16:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/?p=313"},"modified":"2013-01-03T10:10:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T16:10:12","slug":"the-new-jefferson-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/2013\/01\/03\/the-new-jefferson-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Jefferson Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Jefferson famously cut up a Bible to get rid of the junk, the impossible, the immoral, and the flat out wrong.\u00a0 He had 9000 copies printed and given freely to congressmen for the next 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanhumanist.org\/\">American Humanist Association<\/a> has done a 21st century version.\u00a0 But they have also done the same thing to Hebrew Bible, the <em>Qur\u2019an<\/em>, the <em>Bhagavadg\u00eet\u00e2<\/em>, the Buddhist Sutras, and the <em>Book of Mormon<\/em>.\u00a0 Finally, they put in some of the removed material for comparison&#8217;s sake.<\/p>\n<p>The printed book and e-books will be given to President Obama and the 113th congress.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.humanistpress.com\/searchresults?keyword=jefferson+bible&amp;option=catalog&amp;type=quick\">Everyone else can get the book here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I think it&#8217;s a good idea to extract the useful lessons from these types of texts.\u00a0 But with the mania from the Tea Party, I can see this becoming a major blow up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Jefferson famously cut up a Bible to get rid of the junk, the impossible, the immoral, and the flat&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[128,212],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-humanism","tag-jefferson-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}