I'm a quotations wonk (http://wist.info [1]). Pulling elided phrases out of context to provide a meaning not originally meant irks the hell out of me.
In this case, we have the National Prayer Breakfast folk absconding with Jefferson's love for the moral code preached by Jesus to make it sound like Jefferson would be an enthusiastic modern-day evangelical Christian. Which he most certainly would not be (nor would he attend such a breakfast, I strongly suspect). #ddtb
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