#thomasjefferson — Public Fediverse posts
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https://www.europesays.com/people/70998/ Trump administration will join a prayer gathering criticized for promoting Christian nationalism #AnnieLaurieGaylor #BrianKaylor #ChrisTomlin #DanPatrick #DonaldTrump #FranklinGraham #JamesMadison #JaredHuffman #JoeBiden #MarcoRubio #MeirSoloveichik #MikeJohnson #PaulaWhiteCain #PeteHegseth #PopeLeoXIV #religion #RobertBarron #RobertJeffress #SamuelRodriguez #ThomasJefferson #TimothyDolan #USNews #WashingtonNews
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“Under Absolute Despotism” 📜 Declaration of Independence (1776)
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“A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.”*…
First page of an original copy of twelve proposed articles of amendment, as passed by Congress in 1789, and engrossed by William Lambert (source and transcription of the full document)Following the often heated debate between Federalists and their opponents that led to the the ratification and adoption of the U.S. Constitution, the Anti-Federalists were still unsatisfied. Then-Representative James Madison, who studied the deficiencies of the Constitution pointed out by Anti-Federalists, collected proposals (16 in all), and then crafted a series of 12 proposed corrective amendments. Congress approved the twelve articles of amendment on September 25, 1789, and submitted them to the states for ratification. 10 were ultimately ratified– the first 10 amendments to our Constitution… or as we know them, The Bill of Rights.
In an excerpt from his book, Constitutional Myths: What We Get Wrong and How to Get It Right, Ray Raphael elaborates…
The Constitution of the United States, drafted in 1787 and ratified in 1788, did not follow the precedent set by these state constitutions. Despite spending almost four months drafting their new plan, the framers did not include within it a thoughtful listing of rights but only a scattering of guarantees. On September 12, just five days before the end of the Convention, George Mason finally suggested that delegates add a “Bill of Rights” similar to the state declarations of rights, but his motion failed to garner the support of a single state delegation.
Although state conventions ratified the Constitution, several included a caveat: the new plan should be amended as soon as possible. In fact, they proposed scores of amendments, some resembling provisions of what we now know as the Bill of Rights, but many others altering or even deleting structural features of the Constitution. New York’s convention coupled its list of proposed amendments with a demand for a second federal convention to consider these various proposals. The profusion of proposed amendments, plus the prospect of a second convention, frightened supporters of the Constitution, who feared that a new convention, if it met, would revise the fledgling Constitution before it could be put into effect and gut some of its major provisions.
Most leading Federalists hunkered down. In arguing against a second federal convention, they insisted that a bill of rights was not necessary and could even jeopardize rights that were not included. The job of the Constitution, they said, was to state what government could do, not what it couldn’t do. Rights already were secured because the government possessed no power that allowed it to impinge upon them. In fact, any catalog of specified rights would imply that rights were limited to those in the catalog, and not others.
James Madison and George Washington agreed with this argument, but they also took an accurate measure of people’s displeasure. It was strong and it was widespread. Rather than fight a rearguard action against the wave of discontent, they preferred to channel and control it. Article V of the Constitution stipulated that either Congress or state conventions might propose amendments. If Congress acted first, Madison and Washington reasoned, it could take charge of the issue and protect the substantive features of the new plan–congressional taxation, for instance–while giving ground elsewhere. Madison, meanwhile, pledged to his Virginia constituents that he would work to add a bill of rights if they elected him to represent them in Congress.
Once elected, in the First Federal Congress, Madison whittled down the large list of amendments suggested by the states’ ratifying conventions. With President Washington’s blessing, he proposed nineteen that did not endanger key constitutional components. After considerable debate and some revision, Congress pared Madison’s list down to twelve amendments, which it sent to the states for approval. Ten of these, which we call today the Bill of Rights, were ratified by three-quarters of the states, as required by the new Constitution. The genesis of the Bill of Rights, like the origins of the Constitution, was political as well as theoretical.
The short-term effect of the framing and ratification of the Bill of Rights was to put a Federalist stamp on the amendments and to doom the attempts by the Constitution’s opponents to modify the substantive or structural features of the new plan. The long-term effect was to reinforce America’s culture of rights and to infuse specific rights into American jurisprudence. After more than two centuries, the Bill of Rights, which had been so casually dismissed by the framers, figures so prominently in our minds that it often eclipses the Constitution itself. In an era when the word “government” has a bad name, the ten amendments that circumscribe the federal government’s authority over individuals are often viewed more favorably than the Constitution the framers created in 1787…
The backstory of the Bill of Rights, via the always-illuminating Delanceyplace.com
For more on the process that yielded them, and the texts of all 16 proposed amendments, see here.
* Thomas Jefferson, a critic of Federalists, in a 1787 letter to James Madison (who had originally been opposed to the idea of a “bill of rights,” both because he believed that the Constitution as written did not grant the federal government the power to take away people’s rights, and because he [and some other Framers] believed that we have natural rights too numerous to list– and that anything not explicitly included in a Bill of Rights would be unprotected.)
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As we ponder precedent, we might recall that it was on this date in 1930 that a BBC newsreader had nothing to communicate. His entire script for the 8:45 pm news bulletin was: “There is no news”… after which piano music was played for the rest of the 15-minute segment. The wireless service then returned to broadcasting from the Queen’s Hall in London, where the Wagner opera Parsifal was being performed.
This was how most British people got their news in 1930 – listening to radio; TV broadcasts started six years later (source) #AntiFederalists #BBC #BillOfRights #Constitution #culture #dayWithNoNews #dayWithoutNews #Federalists #history #JamesMonroe #news #radio #rights #ThomasJefferson #wireless -
#ThomasJefferson, born today in 1743, was America's first ambassador to #France https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/france/thomas-jefferson/?s=mb #travel #history
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"A true patriot will defend his country from its government."
On his birthday, 10 Thomas Jefferson quotes.
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/04/13-april-thomas-jefferson-quotes.html
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Jefferson gets glazed too often for being one of the worst of the Founding Fathers
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The History of Conspiracy Theories Surrounding the Founding Fathers and Freemasonry
📰 Original title: Philadelphia's founding years were rife with conspiracy fears about 'godless' Freemasons and the Illuminati
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Usuarios: It's clickbait ⚠️View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/the-history-of-conspiracy-theories-surrounding-the-founding-fathers-and-freemasonry/?redirpost=0ded0ab9-1961-4eca-b481-5a0ade2e5ce1
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
— Thomas Jefferson
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No kidding: 'Ecofeminist' course at UVA has students consulting goats and lichen about oppression
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No kidding: 'Ecofeminist' course at UVA has students consulting goats and lichen about oppression
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Trump’s Rose Garden Gets Makeover While He’s Away Starting War https://www.allforgardening.com/1634211/trumps-rose-garden-gets-makeover-while-hes-away-starting-war-2/ #garden #PresidentDonaldTrump #RoseGarden #ThomasJefferson #WhiteHouse #WhiteHouseCorrespondent #WhiteHouseRoseGarden
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#ThomasJefferson #paleontology
"Thomas Jefferson was many things: a revolutionary, an enslaver, a horticulturist, and—by some accounts—the 'father of American vertebrate paleontology.' Science historian Keith Thomson looks at Jefferson’s study of fossils—which he suggested were not fossils at all—in an effort to win respect for the natural life of North America.
Thomson writes that, for nearly a decade after publishing Notes, Jefferson abandoned scientific work for politics. But in 1796, after he had temporarily retired from government employment, he received a letter from a friend regarding the discovery, in what’s now West Virginia, of 'the Bones of a Tremendous animal.' The letter also suggested that the creature 'probably was of the Lion kind.'
The fossilized bones of the 'great-claw,' shipped to Jefferson’s residence, were parts of a giant, clawed limb. Following his friend’s lead, Jefferson worked on the assumption that this had been some sort of lion—but one with claws at least three times the length of an African lion’s.
However, after seeing a drawing of a South American giant sloth fossil—a genus known as Megatherium—he reluctantly acknowledged that this was a better fit. In the paper he published on the fossil, Thomson writes, 'Jefferson still seemed to cling to the idea that things would turn around and it would be revealed as a giant lion after all.'"
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A highly amusing alternate history/fantasy story. You think our current government is bad? See what dark arts Thomas Jefferson attempted.
#ShortStory #AmReading #AmReadingFantasy #WritersOfMastodon #History #HistoricalFantasy #JohnAdams #ThomasJefferson #AuthorsOfMastodon #AlternateHIstory #AltHistory #AmReadingFiction
https://calendaroffools.com/stories/for-the-rectitude-of-our-intentions-stephen-kotowych/
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An electoral tie between #ThomasJefferson and Aaron Burr was resolved OTD in 1801 when Jefferson was elected President of the United States and Burr, Vice President by the US House of Representatives https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/france/thomas-jefferson/?s=mb #travel #history
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Thomas Jefferson coined a hip and funny phrase for abrupt goodbyes that still holds up today
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#ThomasJefferson envisioned an “empire of liberty” through expansion and example, not military dominance—rooted in consent, rights, and anti-monarchical self-rule.
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Virginia’s Best Blue Ridge Beauty, Adventure, And Wine Is On Full Display In This Lovely County
Just 1.5 hours from Washing…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Wine #BlueRidgeMountains #FortValley #FortValleyVirginia #GeorgeWashington #MassanuttenMountains #ShenandoahCaverns #ShenandoahCounty #ShenandoahRiver #ShenandoahValley #ThomasJefferson #virginia #WestVirginia
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2441658/virginias-best-blue-ridge-beauty-adventure-and-wine-is-on-full-display-in-this-lovely-county/ -
Virginia’s Best Blue Ridge Beauty, Adventure, And Wine Is On Full Display In This Lovely County https://www.diningandcooking.com/2441658/virginias-best-blue-ridge-beauty-adventure-and-wine-is-on-full-display-in-this-lovely-county/ #BlueRidgeMountains #FortValley #FortValleyVirginia #GeorgeWashington #MassanuttenMountains #ShenandoahCaverns #ShenandoahCounty #ShenandoahRiver #ShenandoahValley #ThomasJefferson #virginia #WestVirginia #Wine
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I was able to tour Poplar Forest for the first time finally with the little one and would like to share some observations here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poplar_Forest #PoplarForest #histodons #ThomasJefferson
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The group included some members – like the vice president – who could not be fired at will by the president. #Hamilton, then the Treasury Secy, served on the first Sinking Fund Commission alongside Secy of State #ThomasJefferson, his bitter political rival.
#law #HumphreysExecutor #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #Trump #Autocracy #power #ExecutiveBranch #SeparationOfPowers #Congress 🧵
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Update. The U of Virginia surveyed its community in October on how it should respond to the #Trump compact. The Chronicle of Higher Education got the results through a public-records request.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/uva-asked-its-community-to-weigh-in-on-trumps-compact-heres-what-they-said
(#paywalled)" 'Nope. Nothing. Nada.' 'Not at all.' 'No'. 'NO.' 'NO!'… Those curt replies were broadly representative of the responses as a whole…The F-word is used nine times…There were nearly 200 references to #UVa’s founder, #ThomasJefferson, almost all of which were in service of the argument that the compact went against his vision of the university. 'Stand your ground,' one wrote. 'You know it’s what Thomas Jefferson would have wanted.' "
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #Universities #UVa #USPol #USPolitics -
The oak was in fact named for the commander of an occupying force, General Sir Banastre Tarleton, 1st Baronet. He was here to chase Governor Thomas Jefferson, who had fled the state capital in Williamsburg to continue his revolutionary efforts in safer territory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banastre_Tarleton #ThomasJefferson
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Hype for the Future 27/284: Thanksgiving Special on Social Roles
Preamble Upon the founding of the Town of Plymouth and the Plymouth Colony circa 1620, following the realization that a plague had wiped out the Wampanoag population of Patuxet, the first settlers of the Plymouth Colony had given thanks to the God of Puritan Christianity. Puritanism was initially meant to "purify' the Church of England, effectively removing all Catholic-coded elements that had supposedly made the Church "impure." Unfortunately, however, the history of Thanksgiving is […] -
https://www.fogolf.com/1041947/will-trump-be-on-mount-rushmore-bill-proposed-it-even-if-artist-said-there-is-no-space/ Will Trump be on Mount Rushmore? Bill proposed it, even if artist said there is no space #Donald #DonaldTrump #DonaldTrumpGolf #DonaldTrumpGolfing #GeorgeWashington #MountRushmore #TheodoreRoosevelt #ThomasJefferson #trump #TrumpGolf #TrumpGolfing
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Chris Hedges Report: How ‘Paradise Lost’ Revolutionized the World
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/07/08/chris-hedges-report-how-paradise-lost-revolutionized-the-world/
Orlando Reade discusses the influence of John Milton’s 17th century epic poem on revolutionary thinkers and grapples with the moral gray area that exists in revolutions. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost There are few pieces of literature that remain as prescient and…
#Politics #Books #Commentary #Poetry #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #AlexanderHerzen #AndrewMarvell #C.l.r.James #Chartists #Christianity #Democracy #EnglishCivilWar #EnglishRepublic #HannahArendt #JohnMilton #Levellers #MalcolmX #MccarranAct #Mccarthyism #Mirabeau #Monarchy #NewTestament #OlaudahEquiano #OliverCromwell #OrlandoReade #ParadiseLost #PercyShelley #Restoration #Revolution #SamuelJohnson #TheChrisHedgesReport #ThomasJefferson #VirginiaWolff #WilliamBlake -
A quotation from Thomas Jefferson
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American political philosopher, polymath, statesman, US President (1801-09)
Document (1776-07-02), “Declaration of Independence”Sourcing, notes, other versions: wist.info/jefferson-thomas/220…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasjefferson #declarationofindependence #absolutepower #custom #despot #despotism #endurance #government #inertia #overthrow #putupwith #rebellion #revolution #suffering #tyranny
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A Different Revolution
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/07/04/a-different-revolution/
There were two original sins that drove the colonial ruling class to separate from their country and support a war for independence, writes Ace Thelin. By Ace Thelin Special to Consortium News It’s long past time Americans face the truth…
#Politics #AmericanEmpire #Books #CivilRights #Commentary #History #HumanRights #IndigenousPeople #U.s. #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #Abolitionists #AceThelin #ColonialRulingClass #FoundingFathers #GeraldHorne #GloriousRevolution #IndependenceDay #Maroons #NedBlackhawk #Shay’sRebellion #SlaveOwners #SlaveTrade #ThomasJefferson #WarForIndependence -
Independence From Empire Day 2025
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/07/04/independence-from-empire-day-2025/
The former American republic is now an empire, the type of government from which Thomas Jefferson and his colleagues violently seceded, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. By Andrew P. Napolitano We are independent of London, but are we independent of Washington?…
#Politics #AmericanEmpire #CivilRights #Commentary #Constitution #Legal #Militarism #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #U.s.SupremeCourrt #UnitedKingdon #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #AndrewP.Napolitano #ContinentalCongress #DeclarationOfIndependence #KingGeorgeIii #ThomasJefferson -
A Police State Coming to a Town Near You
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/26/a-police-state-coming-to-a-town-near-you/
Andrew P. Napolitano examines the moral and historical errors in the argument that less freedom produces more safety. By Andrew P. Napolitano We have seen this before. A foreign entity attacks American persons or property and the government warns that its…
#Politics #Commentary #Constitution #Legal #U.s. #U.s.JusticeDept. #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #AmericanRevolution #AndrewP.Napolitano #BillOfRights #DeclarationOfIndependence #JamesMadison #NaturalLawTheory #ThomasJefferson -
How the potato became popular thanks to Marie-Antoinette, an ex-prisoner of war and French fries https://www.diningandcooking.com/2128796/how-the-potato-became-popular-thanks-to-marie-antoinette-an-ex-prisoner-of-war-and-french-fries/ #BenjaminFranklin #Bolivia #colonialism #francais #france #French #FrenchDiet #incas #ireland #MarcFennell #MarieAntoinette #NoOneSawItComing #peru #Potato #potatoes #Queen #shakespeare #SouthAmerica #spain #ThomasJefferson
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Enforcing Silence
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/09/enforcing-silence/
Imagine the U.S. government requiring public speech or enforcing public silence in return for the benefits it gives out, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. Well, it is happening under our noses today. By Andrew P. Napolitano All attempts by the government…
#Politics #Censorship #CivilRights #Commentary #Constitution #Legal #TrumpAdministration #U.n.SecurityCouncil #U.s. #U.s.SupremeCourrt #AndrewP.Napolitano #DeclarationOfIndependence #FirstAmendment #JamesMadison #JohnStuartMill #NaturalLaw #St.ThomasAquinas #ThomasJefferson -
Enforcing Silence
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/09/enforcing-silence/
Imagine the U.S. government requiring public speech or enforcing public silence in return for the benefits it gives out, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. Well, it is happening under our noses today. By Andrew P. Napolitano All attempts by the government…
#Politics #Censorship #CivilRights #Commentary #Constitution #Legal #TrumpAdministration #U.n.SecurityCouncil #U.s. #U.s.SupremeCourrt #AndrewP.Napolitano #DeclarationOfIndependence #FirstAmendment #JamesMadison #JohnStuartMill #NaturalLaw #St.ThomasAquinas #ThomasJefferson -
Enforcing Silence
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/09/enforcing-silence/
Imagine the U.S. government requiring public speech or enforcing public silence in return for the benefits it gives out, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. Well, it is happening under our noses today. By Andrew P. Napolitano All attempts by the government…
#Politics #Censorship #CivilRights #Commentary #Constitution #Legal #TrumpAdministration #U.n.SecurityCouncil #U.s. #U.s.SupremeCourrt #AndrewP.Napolitano #DeclarationOfIndependence #FirstAmendment #JamesMadison #JohnStuartMill #NaturalLaw #St.ThomasAquinas #ThomasJefferson -
Enforcing Silence
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/09/enforcing-silence/
Imagine the U.S. government requiring public speech or enforcing public silence in return for the benefits it gives out, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. Well, it is happening under our noses today. By Andrew P. Napolitano All attempts by the government…
#Politics #Censorship #CivilRights #Commentary #Constitution #Legal #TrumpAdministration #U.n.SecurityCouncil #U.s. #U.s.SupremeCourrt #AndrewP.Napolitano #DeclarationOfIndependence #FirstAmendment #JamesMadison #JohnStuartMill #NaturalLaw #St.ThomasAquinas #ThomasJefferson -
Enforcing Silence
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/09/enforcing-silence/
Imagine the U.S. government requiring public speech or enforcing public silence in return for the benefits it gives out, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. Well, it is happening under our noses today. By Andrew P. Napolitano All attempts by the government…
#Politics #Censorship #CivilRights #Commentary #Constitution #Legal #TrumpAdministration #U.n.SecurityCouncil #U.s. #U.s.SupremeCourrt #AndrewP.Napolitano #DeclarationOfIndependence #FirstAmendment #JamesMadison #JohnStuartMill #NaturalLaw #St.ThomasAquinas #ThomasJefferson -
Very sober thoughts from US lawyer John Flannery. The real #WarPlans are still developing.
Take 16 minutes, and catch up. #Share
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvCWRRX4v50#MarkCarney #JDVance #SteveBannon #DonaldTrump #ThomasJefferson #AdolfHitler #WinstonChurchill #Signal #Canada #Greenland #Russia #USA #RWNJ #Dictatorship
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Were the Founding Fathers REALLY #Christian?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyolaroaa5w
#christiannationalism #foundingfathers #spirituality
Was #America really founded as a #Christiannation? In this video, we take a deep dive into what the Founding Fathers actually believed about #religion, Christianity, and #God—and how their real views are often twisted today.
#ThomasJefferson's #JamesMadison #churchstateseparation #deist #skeptical #secular #UnitedStates
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Were the Founding Fathers REALLY #Christian?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyolaroaa5w
#christiannationalism #foundingfathers #spirituality
Was #America really founded as a #Christiannation? In this video, we take a deep dive into what the Founding Fathers actually believed about #religion, Christianity, and #God—and how their real views are often twisted today.
#ThomasJefferson's #JamesMadison #churchstateseparation #deist #skeptical #secular #UnitedStates
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Too small to be sure, but I think that's Thomas Jefferson (3rd prez) top right, ironic considering he was a staunch separation of church and state founding father! He even authored a Bible with all the supernatural stuff edited out!
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Not likely from the man who created 👉 his own version of the Bible 👈 with the supernatural bits removed!
"Jefferson's condensed composition excludes all miracles by Jesus and most mentions of the supernatural, including sections of the four gospels that contain the Resurrection and most other miracles, and passages that portray Jesus as divine."
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#5yrsago #MurLafferty wrote a science fiction story about the DMCA to help EFF’s fair use for vidders campaign https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/eff-presents-mur-laffertys-science-fiction-story-about-our-fair-use-petition
#5yrsago The paperback of #Walkaway is out today, along with reissues of all my adult novels in matching covers! https://memex.craphound.com/2018/05/22/the-paperback-of-walkaway-is-out-today-along-with-reissues-of-all-my-adult-novels-in-matching-covers/
#5yrsago The emerging split in modern #trustbusting: #AlexanderHamilton’s #FullyAutomatedLuxuryCommunism vs #ThomasJefferson’s #Redecentralization https://memex.craphound.com/2018/05/22/the-emerging-split-in-modern-trustbusting-alexander-hamiltons-fully-automated-luxury-communism-vs-thomas-jeffersons-redecentralization/
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