#1350 Diamonds and Dunghills

What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.
— Thomas Jefferson

This week, Clay takes a deeper look at Jefferson and religion. Jefferson considered the teachings of Jesus as having "the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man," but he felt that the pure teachings of Jesus were inaccurately appropriated by some of the early followers of Jesus which led to a Bible that had both "diamonds" of wisdom and the "dung" of ancient political agendas.

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Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advance one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia


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What Would Jefferson Do?

 
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You have to train to be an American. It’s an ideal.
— Clay S. Jenkinson portraying Thomas Jefferson

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