Presomnia

Musings from that moment of sharp clarity right before sleep...

My Take On: "My Take: How Thomas Jefferson’s secret Bible might have changed history – CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs"

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One man (Jefferson) takes razor & glue to the NT. Why? Because he wants to reconstruct it in a way to better reflect his sensibilities, most particularly Christ's "moral code".

Problems?

1) The NT wasn't/isn't/never will be about a "moral code" - Christ's or otherwise. Nope, it's all about the fact that Christ, and Christ alone, could die to pay for our sins. Christ as propitiation & Redeemer.

2) What Jefferson did was in direct contradiction to Biblical admonition against adding to/subtracting from the Word of God (Dt 4:2 & Rev 22:18-19).

In other words, TJ's NT is merely a man-made work of fiction with no more authority than _The Davinci Code_, or _The Book of Mormon_.

So, to speculate on its potential impact in the early 19th Century is certainly (well, *possibly*) fascinating, but it in no way because the book was Christian or an accurate depiction/take on Christian doctrine.

-ghp

Listen not to the naysayers!

Franks

Believe not the rantings of naysayers; Spaghettios w/Franks are one of God's sublime culinary gifts to His beloved children. It's one Kingdom of the Left way that we can know that He loves us.

Additionally, Sw/F were a way that I knew my mumma loved me, as that is my earliest memory of a way in which she made me feel special by using food to indulge me, even at the risk of sneaking it by my dad (right, bigsis?).

While plain Spaghettios were ok (but w/Meatballs were, simply, caca) Sw/Franks were my manna. I loved those little sliced franks so much that it was no effort at all to get enough labels to send away to get my very own Spagettios spoon!

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Which I then used so much that the finish was warn away after a very short while! It is, and will always be one of my prized posessions!

For me & my tastes, there is but one acceptable substitute for the "real" franks, and I owe to my Grandpa Piper and his belief that Sw/Franks was too expensive compared to plain ol' Spaghettios...

Vienna_sausages

 

Thanks to Grandpa, I developed a taste for vienna sausages, which I still have to this day (though my wimminfolk are loathe to let me indulge this particular taste...). For this, and many, many other things, I am grateful to my paternal grandfather!

In closing, @frankgillespie, I'm sorry my green friend but no matter what you misguidedly contend in your reply, you're wrong! :^)

-ghp