The master of lies

[Prospero]

Glenn Beck's new publishing house is reported to be set to publish a book rejected by even evangelical publishing houses for its mass of innacurracies about Thomas Jefferson.

The book purports to prove that jefferson did not beleive in the seperation of Church and State.

So the master of lies continues his assault on reason.... by supporting this book which clearly rewrite history to suit the ideology of the new right.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/aug/20/glenn-beck-thomas-jefferson-book?CMP=twt_fd

[Stavros]

There were Christian activists at the time of Jefferson's campaign for the Presidency who claimed he was going to confiscate all the bibles....and yet he was a Christian of a kind, his own kind -Gier calls it 'Religious Liberalism' and goes some way to showing how far Jefferson thought Church and State should indeed be kept apart [scroll down for a detailed section on Jefferson] -he was apparently one of only two Presidents who has refused to make a proclamation of any sort on Thanksgiving Day. The opening quote from TJ sets the scene: It does me no injury for my neighbour to say that there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg -Jefferson: Notes on Virginia.
http://www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/305/foundfathers.htm

Charles Beard and his wife, Mary in their classic History of the United States (1921) (Chapter 3) draw attention to the diverse religious confessions just among the Christians, and the role it played in primary and higher education -Harvard was at one time (maybe still is) called the School of the Prophets...the whole book, viewed by most contemporary historians as dated and biased, is nevertheless written with great simplicty and fluency, and the whole of it is here (don't be put off by the Marxists home page, they include writngs by Skinner and Wittgenstein, neither of whom were sympathetic to Marx).
http://www.marxists.org/archive/beard/history-us/index.htm

[hippifried]

Is there a reason to care?

[buttslinger]

Jefferson's hobby was cutting out the passages of the Bible he liked most. Books were prized posessions back then.
FDR spent an hour a day on his stamp collection, even during the War.
Will Glenn Beck's new book be in comic book form?