History Palinized by Martin Longman

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2013_12/history_palinized048099.php

If you could turn stupid into a fuel, you could use Sarah Palin to leave the Solar System. Her appearance at Liberty University set a new standard for idiocy in a public figure. Before I quote her, I want to remind you that Thomas Jefferson was so dissatisfied with the New Testament that he cut out all the references to miracles and the resurrection, creating a new book we call The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth.

 He explained his rationale this way:

 “Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him [Jesus] by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being.”

-Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Short, April 13, 1820

has another right wing hero gone the way of Reagan, they idealize until they find out that all they are beating the drum for isn't necessarily true.  now what will evangelicals say about one of their party's heroes?   guess that happens when you believe the embellished history by those who re-write.              

He was actually hostile to several forms of Christianity. Of Catholicism, he said, “History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government,” and “In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.”

In a letter to John Adams, dated April 11, 1823, Jefferson wrote “I can never join [John] Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism. If ever man worshipped a false god, he did.”

Bachmann said they need to investigate congress to see how many communist there were, maybe they should investigate and see how man of those founding guys were atheist.