10 Thomas Jefferson Quotes…. That Are Totally Fake

#2. “The Bible is the source of liberty…”

This is what Jefferson did to the Bible.

 

Sorry religiosos, Jefferson never said it. It first appeared in Our Public Schools – Christian or Secular, by Renwick Harper Martin. People think that its origins are from the Declaration of Independence, where Jefferson said: “…they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Some overly zealous types may have translated that as “The Bible is the source of liberty,” but “endowed by their Creator with…Liberty” is not the same thing.

Indeed Jefferson was a bit of a Bible heretic, spending the first year in the White House secretly destroying and recreating the Bible in his own image. The Jefferson Bible is one of the most controversial works by our third president, and is something that many people today still don’t know about.

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