{"id":25525,"date":"2012-01-18T11:38:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T18:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/bearing-false-witness-against-thomas-jefferson.html"},"modified":"2012-01-18T15:26:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T22:26:41","slug":"bearing-false-witness-against-thomas-jefferson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/bearing-false-witness-against-thomas-jefferson.html","title":{"rendered":"Bearing false witness (against Thomas Jefferson)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m a quotations wonk (<a href=\"http:\/\/wist.info\" >http:\/\/wist.info<\/a>). Pulling elided phrases out of context to provide a meaning not originally meant irks the hell out of me.  <\/p>\n<p>In this case, we have the National Prayer Breakfast folk absconding with Jefferson&#39;s love for the <i>moral code<\/i> 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<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.au.org\/blogs\/wall-of-separation\/doubting-thomas-prayer-breakfast-theocrats-try-to-baptize-jefferson'>Doubting Thomas: Prayer Breakfast Theocrats Try To Baptize Jefferson | Americans United<\/a><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m a quotations wonk (http:\/\/wist.info). 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&#39;s love for the moral code preached by Jesus to make it sound like Jefferson would be an enthusiastic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/bearing-false-witness-against-thomas-jefferson.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bearing false witness (against Thomas Jefferson)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,109,108,33,110],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-25525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-church-state","category-history","category-wist","category-religious-zanies","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25222,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/09\/jeffersons-bible-and-david-barton.html","url_meta":{"origin":25525,"position":0},"title":"Jefferson&#39;s Bible and David Barton","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 9-Jan-12 2:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"David Barton, pseudo-historian (and dolt), will soon be publishing The Jefferson Lies, wherein he tries to demonstrate that Thomas Jefferson was just as much of an evangelical, miracle-believing, Jesus-praising, conservative Christian as ... well, Dave Barton claims to be. 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