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Originally posted by sugar and spice
"The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites." - Thomas Jefferson
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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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