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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 5271623 11/08/2012 10:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hey OP, here's another for you: Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27339308 If evolution doesn't exist, how come there are so many different species of dogs? All domesticated dogs came from a common dingo-like ancestor that we domesticated. So if evolution doesn't exist, how did we breed them into everything from Poodles and Collies, to Great Danes and Chihuahuas? Or are you so fucking ignorant that you think God designed Shihpoohs, hid 'em under a rock, and then nobody found them for the first time until a poodle and shitzu happened to bang? That's not evolution. Just shows how simple minded you are to think breeds of dogs will ever be anything other than a dog. The Bible says God had Noah put all "kinds" of animals on the Ark boat. That would have been the wolf for which all dogs come from in just 4500 years. Same with the bears, some cats, horse/zebra/zonkey, ect. Do you also believe LaMarkism? You know Darwin's theory was just a new spin on LaMarck? Is that so? So you admit animals change over time, but not that they can change so much to be considered new animals? You're contradicting yourself. Talk about simple minded. If you change one thing about something, one thing at a time, it will eventually be another thing entirely. I've proven you can change things through selective breeding. At what point that thing becomes another creature is ONLY RELEVANT TO HUMANS TRYING TO CLASSIFY IT. Species do not seperate themselves into perfectly individual categories for your convenience. You'd have to be ignorant, and self-absorbed, to assume a creator laid all this out for your amusement in neat little packages that always stay the same for all time. Absolutely absurd to assume incremental small changes add up to big changes. Mathematicians laugh at your ignorance. Sometimes an accrual of INFINITE additional change leads to convergence, sometimes it leads to divergence. Sometimes it leads to divergence that barely changes. To further carry on this assumption to extraordinarily complex living organisms and hereditary, which any scientist will tell you we are only scratching the surface in understanding, is just compounding the absurdity. So what are we left with to prove evolution. Well, evidence of transitional species would be nice? Guess what, NO FUCKING EVIDENCE for it at all in the fossil record or living species. In fact, evidence overwhelmingly disproving a gradual evolution of species. But the Evolutiontards continue to have faith in the religion of Evolution despite all evidence to the contrary. |
| PanAssassin User ID: 26852474 11/08/2012 10:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I took a course in Evolutionary psychology....it's a pretty solid theory. There are only a few questions that remain, one of them being why the human brain developed so quickly, along with civilization itself. Divine intervention? Aliens? A mixture of both? Let's be rational here. Love, Strength and Honor |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27314176 11/08/2012 10:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | see the preaching of evolutionist joe rogan get put to shame by the truth - [link to youtu.be] Quoting: Anonymous Coward 7254491 Raised Roman Catholic and promoted on GCN Jones' radio show [link to en.wikipedia.org] |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27339308 11/08/2012 10:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hey OP, here's another for you: Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27339308 If evolution doesn't exist, how come there are so many different species of dogs? All domesticated dogs came from a common dingo-like ancestor that we domesticated. So if evolution doesn't exist, how did we breed them into everything from Poodles and Collies, to Great Danes and Chihuahuas? Or are you so fucking ignorant that you think God designed Shihpoohs, hid 'em under a rock, and then nobody found them for the first time until a poodle and shitzu happened to bang? That's not evolution. Just shows how simple minded you are to think breeds of dogs will ever be anything other than a dog. The Bible says God had Noah put all "kinds" of animals on the Ark boat. That would have been the wolf for which all dogs come from in just 4500 years. Same with the bears, some cats, horse/zebra/zonkey, ect. Do you also believe LaMarkism? You know Darwin's theory was just a new spin on LaMarck? Is that so? So you admit animals change over time, but not that they can change so much to be considered new animals? You're contradicting yourself. Talk about simple minded. If you change one thing about something, one thing at a time, it will eventually be another thing entirely. I've proven you can change things through selective breeding. At what point that thing becomes another creature is ONLY RELEVANT TO HUMANS TRYING TO CLASSIFY IT. Species do not seperate themselves into perfectly individual categories for your convenience. You'd have to be ignorant, and self-absorbed, to assume a creator laid all this out for your amusement in neat little packages that always stay the same for all time. Absolutely absurd to assume incremental small changes add up to big changes. Mathematicians laugh at your ignorance. Sometimes an accrual of INFINITE additional change leads to convergence, sometimes it leads to divergence. Sometimes it leads to divergence that barely changes. To further carry on this assumption to extraordinarily complex living organisms and hereditary, which any scientist will tell you we are only scratching the surface in understanding, is just compounding the absurdity. So what are we left with to prove evolution. Well, evidence of transitional species would be nice? Guess what, NO FUCKING EVIDENCE for it at all in the fossil record or living species. In fact, evidence overwhelmingly disproving a gradual evolution of species. But the Evolutiontards continue to have faith in the religion of Evolution despite all evidence to the contrary. What do you mean, it's absurd to say small changes don't add up to big changes? Are you the same person you were at six years old? Do you not realize it's by these small changes that we classify entire different species to begin with? By your logic, all four-legged mammals are the same species. Oh, and although human transitional fossils are lacking, we have plenty of them from other species. List of transitional fossils: [link to en.wikipedia.org] Maybe you just didn't look hard enough, idiot. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27314176 11/08/2012 10:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Apart from the fossil records, DNA evidence and the genetic path. The fossil record proves there was a global flood like the Bible records. The fossil record disproves millions of years with given erosion rates. The fossil record shows us many extinct animals. The fossil record does not record evolution. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27314176 11/08/2012 10:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Oh, and although human transitional fossils are lacking, we have plenty of them from other species. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27339308 List of transitional fossils: [link to en.wikipedia.org] Maybe you just didn't look hard enough, idiot. Prove you are not a simpleton by finding out of the list of drawings a fossil of ONE 'transitional'? |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 5271623 11/08/2012 10:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27314176 That's not evolution. Just shows how simple minded you are to think breeds of dogs will ever be anything other than a dog. The Bible says God had Noah put all "kinds" of animals on the Ark boat. That would have been the wolf for which all dogs come from in just 4500 years. Same with the bears, some cats, horse/zebra/zonkey, ect. Do you also believe LaMarkism? You know Darwin's theory was just a new spin on LaMarck? Is that so? So you admit animals change over time, but not that they can change so much to be considered new animals? You're contradicting yourself. Talk about simple minded. If you change one thing about something, one thing at a time, it will eventually be another thing entirely. I've proven you can change things through selective breeding. At what point that thing becomes another creature is ONLY RELEVANT TO HUMANS TRYING TO CLASSIFY IT. Species do not seperate themselves into perfectly individual categories for your convenience. You'd have to be ignorant, and self-absorbed, to assume a creator laid all this out for your amusement in neat little packages that always stay the same for all time. Absolutely absurd to assume incremental small changes add up to big changes. Mathematicians laugh at your ignorance. Sometimes an accrual of INFINITE additional change leads to convergence, sometimes it leads to divergence. Sometimes it leads to divergence that barely changes. To further carry on this assumption to extraordinarily complex living organisms and hereditary, which any scientist will tell you we are only scratching the surface in understanding, is just compounding the absurdity. So what are we left with to prove evolution. Well, evidence of transitional species would be nice? Guess what, NO FUCKING EVIDENCE for it at all in the fossil record or living species. In fact, evidence overwhelmingly disproving a gradual evolution of species. But the Evolutiontards continue to have faith in the religion of Evolution despite all evidence to the contrary. What do you mean, it's absurd to say small changes don't add up to big changes? Are you the same person you were at six years old? Do you not realize it's by these small changes that we classify entire different species to begin with? By your logic, all four-legged mammals are the same species. Oh, and although human transitional fossils are lacking, we have plenty of them from other species. List of transitional fossils: [link to en.wikipedia.org] Maybe you just didn't look hard enough, idiot. Oh dear God, you idiots brainwashed with a high school education in Science are too much. If you don't understand the difference between divergence and convergence, I don't want to bother. And a listing of extinct creatures in a Wikipedia article saying these are "transitional species", does not mean they are transitional species. What the fuck are they transitions of? Just look like static species to me. Every fucking Archaeopteryx lithographica more or less is exactly the same as every other other Archaeopteryx lithographica we dug up, get it? |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27314176 11/08/2012 10:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The proof is that man has always been man, just as the Bible says. The evolution 'caveman' is found to be a pack of lies and hoaxes. The proof is that Jesus was here 2000 years ago. Recorded by all historians of the day. Jesus - real. Caveman - fiction. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27339308 11/08/2012 10:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | MORE transitional fossils, showing gradual (but ultimately major) changes: [link to www.transitionalfossils.com] Oh, and seven missing links in evolutionary chains discovered since Darwin's day: [link to news.nationalgeographic.com] Or you gonna tell me national geographic is bullshit too? Or are you one of the tards who thinks God made and buried all those fossils showing evolution in progress just to throw us off? |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 7254491 11/08/2012 11:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | see the preaching of evolutionist joe rogan get put to shame by the truth - [link to youtu.be] Quoting: Anonymous Coward 7254491 Raised Roman Catholic and promoted on GCN Jones' radio show [link to en.wikipedia.org] |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27339308 11/08/2012 11:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ANOTHER example of evolution over time, FOR THOSE TOO LAZY/STUPID TO READ WIKIPEDIA. Hyracotherium/Eohippus: The Dawn Horse snip- Known today as Hyracotherium ("hyrax-like beast"), Eohippus ("dawn horse") was the original name of the first complete skeleton of this primitive, foxlike horse, discovered in the southern U.S. in 1867. Why it matters: When Darwin went public with his theory of evolution, there was no hard evidence to show how an existing animal had evolved from prehistoric species—until Hyracotherium, kicked off a series of fossil discoveries depicting the evolution of horses over 55 million years. Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago says Hyracotherium/Eohippus is up there historically with Archaeopteryx. The paleontologist named Eoraptor—the small transitional dinosaur at the root of the dinosaur family tree—with Eohippus in mind. ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE EVOLUTIONARY PATH OF HORSES: [link to horsejumper.edublogs.org] CHART SHOWING GRADUAL SKELETAL CHANGES FROM FIRST FOXLIKE HORSE TO MODERN HORSE: [link to upload.wikimedia.org] WHOLE FRIGGIN ARTICLE SHOWING THE GRADUAL STEPS OF HORSE EVOLUTION: [link to en.wikipedia.org] |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 7254491 11/08/2012 11:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I took a course in Evolutionary psychology....it's a pretty solid theory. There are only a few questions that remain, one of them being why the human brain developed so quickly, along with civilization itself. Divine intervention? Aliens? A mixture of both? Let's be rational here. Quoting: PanAssassin Either God created everything, or everything created itself. Aliens must fall into one of these two categories as well. Let's be rational here. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27314176 11/08/2012 11:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ANOTHER example of evolution over time, FOR THOSE TOO LAZY/STUPID TO READ WIKIPEDIA. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27339308 Hyracotherium/Eohippus: The Dawn Horse snip- Known today as Hyracotherium ("hyrax-like beast"), Eohippus ("dawn horse") was the original name of the first complete skeleton of this primitive, foxlike horse, discovered in the southern U.S. in 1867. Why it matters: When Darwin went public with his theory of evolution, there was no hard evidence to show how an existing animal had evolved from prehistoric species—until Hyracotherium, kicked off a series of fossil discoveries depicting the evolution of horses over 55 million years. Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago says Hyracotherium/Eohippus is up there historically with Archaeopteryx. The paleontologist named Eoraptor—the small transitional dinosaur at the root of the dinosaur family tree—with Eohippus in mind. ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE EVOLUTIONARY PATH OF HORSES: [link to horsejumper.edublogs.org] CHART SHOWING GRADUAL SKELETAL CHANGES FROM FIRST FOXLIKE HORSE TO MODERN HORSE: [link to upload.wikimedia.org] WHOLE FRIGGIN ARTICLE SHOWING THE GRADUAL STEPS OF HORSE EVOLUTION: [link to en.wikipedia.org] It is an extinct breed of horse no longer found today. The illustration is someone's belief, not science. Horse Zebra Zonkey: the non-evolution of the horse [link to creation.com] |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1792152 11/08/2012 11:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Don't waste your time with an intelligent argument on people like the OP. Thomas Jefferson as so often, got it right when he said. "Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 12562536 11/08/2012 11:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Evolution is a Lie from Hell, Quoting: Fight for Truth 6302433 If you believe this complex universe with all of its different types and forms of living creatures and Humans came from an Accident your brain has been washed of all reason. Just the Structure of the Elements and relationship between all types of life show that the Universe and Life has been Created and made By a Creator - God. Read the King James Bible Book of Genesis and see what the Anti-Christ is afraid of you knowing. humans have been around long before the holy bible, hinduism and bhudism are the oldest known religions. everything he truth if you do your research, lift the governor for wide open knowledgde erectosapiens |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27314176 11/08/2012 11:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Don't waste your time with an intelligent argument on people like the OP. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1792152 Thomas Jefferson as so often, got it right when he said. "Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them. Jefferson was a Freemason. [link to www.mastermason.com] [link to 1.bp.blogspot.com] [link to 2.bp.blogspot.com] |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27314176 11/08/2012 11:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Evolution is a Lie from Hell, Quoting: Fight for Truth 6302433 If you believe this complex universe with all of its different types and forms of living creatures and Humans came from an Accident your brain has been washed of all reason. Just the Structure of the Elements and relationship between all types of life show that the Universe and Life has been Created and made By a Creator - God. Read the King James Bible Book of Genesis and see what the Anti-Christ is afraid of you knowing. humans have been around long before the holy bible, hinduism and bhudism are the oldest known religions. everything he truth if you do your research, lift the governor for wide open knowledgde erectosapiens Hindu is not older. It came out of Babylon after the flood. No religions are older or of God but God's revealed word, the Bible as we find today. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1792152 11/09/2012 12:00 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Don't waste your time with an intelligent argument on people like the OP. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1792152 Thomas Jefferson as so often, got it right when he said. "Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them. Jefferson was a Freemason. [link to www.mastermason.com] [link to 1.bp.blogspot.com] [link to 2.bp.blogspot.com] And therefore... |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 7254491 11/09/2012 12:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Don't waste your time with an intelligent argument on people like the OP. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1792152 Thomas Jefferson as so often, got it right when he said. "Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them. Jefferson was a Freemason. [link to www.mastermason.com] [link to 1.bp.blogspot.com] [link to 2.bp.blogspot.com] And therefore... And therefore he worshipped satan in secret (Eph. 5:12) with 'them' (Rev. 2:9) jefferson had his own bible wherein he denied the resurrection of Jesus Christ "Jefferson's view of the Resurrection was not so divine" - [link to www.foxnews.com] |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1792152 11/09/2012 12:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Evolution is a Lie from Hell, Quoting: Fight for Truth 6302433 If you believe this complex universe with all of its different types and forms of living creatures and Humans came from an Accident your brain has been washed of all reason. Just the Structure of the Elements and relationship between all types of life show that the Universe and Life has been Created and made By a Creator - God. Read the King James Bible Book of Genesis and see what the Anti-Christ is afraid of you knowing. humans have been around long before the holy bible, hinduism and bhudism are the oldest known religions. everything he truth if you do your research, lift the governor for wide open knowledgde erectosapiens Hindu is not older. It came out of Babylon after the flood. No religions are older or of God but God's revealed word, the Bible as we find today. Just so you know... The term "Hindu" is actually a Persian term that used to denote people who lived east&south of the river "Indus" the Persians had a hard time pronouncing "Indus" hence they pronounced it as "Hindu" The term Hindus generally refer to their religion is "sanatana dharma", meaning "eternal way/path/religion" The earliest known records of Hinduism appear to have been found by archaeologists date back to the start of the Indus river civilization(one of the 3 oldest civilizations on earth) [link to en.wikipedia.org] there have been many statues and images of meditating "yogis" found along with objects thought to refer to "siva/shiva". There were many goddesses in the Indus valley civilization as well. "Mehrgarh" is the oldest town(as of today) found belonging to the Indus river civilization by archaeologists. Its dated to 7000 BC(1000 years older than the previously thought of "oldest town on earth"-cattal hayyuk in turkey) [link to en.wikipedia.org] There have been many statues of Goddesses found in the town of Mehrgarh that are precursors to the modern Hindu goddesses. look at these ancient clay tablets depicting siva/shiva in a classical yogic position(the stance called mulabahdmasana) [link to tantra.fiestras.com] The bull/cow was considered sacred even then, as evidenced from the many clay tablets that have the bull-motif. also Yoga seems to have had a lot of importance too because of all the many yoga figurines found. So technically Hinduism(which later became into the Hinduism as we know it today after merging with the beliefs of the Aryans who moved into India around 1800 bc) dates back to at least 7000 BC, according to hard evidence. Hinduism does NOT have a single founder or a single holy text, hence the beginning cannot be set on stone, as many near eastern religions can. All we can know as of what we know now is that it was there in 7000BC |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 7254491 11/09/2012 12:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you accept anything based solely on belief, without any proof of evidence, then you are a fool. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 17938575 right? how can anyone believe they evolved from a soup of water and rocks billions of years ago For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse (Rom. 1:20) |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27314176 11/09/2012 12:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Don't waste your time with an intelligent argument on people like the OP. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1792152 Thomas Jefferson as so often, got it right when he said. "Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them. Jefferson was a Freemason. [link to www.mastermason.com] [link to 1.bp.blogspot.com] [link to 2.bp.blogspot.com] And therefore... A faulty man, like the pope. Christians follow God not any man. Not the pope not Jefferson. Men will always let you down. They lie and are filled with ignorance. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 27314176 11/09/2012 12:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So technically Hinduism(which later became into the Hinduism as we know it today after merging with the beliefs of the Aryans who moved into India around 1800 bc) dates back to at least 7000 BC, according to hard evidence. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1792152 Hinduism does NOT have a single founder or a single holy text, hence the beginning cannot be set on stone, as many near eastern religions can. All we can know as of what we know now is that it was there in 7000BC "7000BC" is an arbitrary number based on evolutionary beliefs and discredited dating methods. The region in question is post flood circa 2345 BC. Noah's children founded the entire region of Sumer. Persia is even later. . . . . . . Babylon and the Bible by Professor Walter J. Veith, PhD Two hundred years ago, scholars doubted whether Babylon ever existed. The only record could be found in the Bible. Critics used the story of Babylon, and what they called its "non-historic kings," to discount Scripture. However, Babylon was discovered and excavated in 1898. We know today that Babylon was one of the first cities in the world, and founded by Nimrod, great-grandson of Noah (Genesis 10:9-10). Archaeologists have found his name on many inscriptions and tablets, while a massive head of Nimrod has been excavated near Calah on the Tigris River. [link to amazingdiscoveries.org] Sumeria is located in the Land of Kish (Kush or Cush) founded by son of Noah's son Ham. "Kish was occupied beginning in the Jemdet Nasr period (3100 BC), gaining prominence as one of the pre-eminent powers in the region during the early dynastic period. The Sumerian king list states that it was the first city to have kings following the deluge, beginning with Jushur." [link to en.wikipedia.org] "Cush, son of Ham. The Empire of Kush to the south of Egypt is known from at least 1970 BC, but this name has also been associated by some with the Kassites who inhabited the Zagros area of Mesopotamia, the Sumerian city of Kish in the Land of Kish." [link to en.wikipedia.org] "The Sumerian Kish, the first city established in Mesopotamia after the Flood, took its name from the man known in the Bible as Cush. The first kingdom established after the Flood was Kish, and the name "Kish" appears often on clay tablets. The early post-Flood Sumerian king lists say that "kingship descended from heaven to Kish" after the Flood." continues: [link to davelivingston.com] and [link to www.noahs-ark.tv] |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1792152 11/09/2012 12:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Don't waste your time with an intelligent argument on people like the OP. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1792152 Thomas Jefferson as so often, got it right when he said. "Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them. Jefferson was a Freemason. [link to www.mastermason.com] [link to 1.bp.blogspot.com] [link to 2.bp.blogspot.com] And therefore... And therefore he worshipped satan in secret (Eph. 5:12) with 'them' (Rev. 2:9) jefferson had his own bible wherein he denied the resurrection of Jesus Christ "Jefferson's view of the Resurrection was not so divine" - [link to www.foxnews.com] Jefferson described the book as follows ( he never called it a Bible) The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth. He described it in a letter to John Adams dated October 13, 1813: In extracting the pure principles which he taught, we should have to strip off the artificial vestments in which they have been muffled by priests, who have travestied them into various forms, as instruments of riches and power to themselves. We must dismiss the Platonists and Plotinists, the Stagyrites and Gamalielites, the Eclectics, the Gnostics and Scholastics, their essences and emanations, their logos and demiurges, aeons and daemons, male and female, with a long train of … or, shall I say at once, of nonsense. We must reduce our volume to the simple evangelists, select, even from them, the very words only of Jesus, paring off the amphibologisms into which they have been led, by forgetting often, or not understanding, what had fallen from him, by giving their own misconceptions as his dicta, and expressing unintelligibly for others what they had not understood themselves. There will be found remaining the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man. I have performed this operation for my own use, by cutting verse by verse out of the printed book, and arranging the matter which is evidently his, and which is as easily distinguishable as diamonds in a dunghill. The result is an octavo of forty-six pages, of pure and unsophisticated doctrines. Jefferson was only interested in words spoken by Jesus, not words or deeds attributed to him by others. Jefferson wrote, "A more beautiful or precious morsel of ethics I have never seen; it is a document in proof that I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus." Jefferson's claim to be a Christian was made in response to those who accused him of being otherwise, due to his unorthodox view of the Bible and conception of Christ. Recognizing his rather unique views, Jefferson stated in a letter (1819) to Ezra Stiles Ely, "You say you are a Calvinist. I am not. I am of a sect by myself, as far as I know." Jefferson did not follow the herd, he thought for himself, that was part of his greatness. Sorta like Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Einstein, folks like that. |