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Originally posted by MysticCat81
Jefferson, who at best can be described as a deist, also "re-wrote" the Gospels, if you'll recall. he removed all of the "irrelevant" and "unbelievable" parts -- meaning those parts that would suggest the divinity of Jesus.
I have found that often times, the "quotes of the founding fathers" pulled from the Internet should be accepted with a great deal of scepticism. Sometimes such quotes may be real, but other times the "quote" cannot be traced back further than the 1950's and has taken on a life of its own on the Internet.
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I think sugar and spice's post was a great example of that. Anyone can pull a quote off the internet, and quote it out of context, both textual context and historical context.
You can find quotes to support anything you want to see. But quotes aren't really hard evidence.
If you want to know the intent of the founders, you'd need much more extensive research. Just as in the law when the courts look at a law to determine what the statutory intent was, they look at it from a much bigger context than a isolated, out of context quote.