Stop calling it Thomas Jefferson's Koran

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    Uh...paul back in his saul days was pretty bad. Lol
     
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    No kidding, but he is not the person the religion is written around.
     
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    Compare gods to gods and men to men. Muhammad was a prophet and a man....as flawed as any prophet in christianity
     
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    I think the only person in history, who comes close to Muhammed was Hitler.
    and no, Hitler was not a God.


    And BTW, Jesus got his divinity by popular vote, over 300 years later.
     
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    Does that mean it's also Jefferson's constitution? Or Jefferson's Bill of rights? Currently, the ownership of said book is the US Government. Unless you also agree that the US Government belongs to Thomas, the book is no longer his. And, clearly, he's dead. So he doesn't retain his ownership, does he? Does the ghost of Thomas still cling tightly to that book? I doubt it. Now, he may have rolled in his grave when it was used... but that's a different story.

    The fundamental observation is this. Ms Tlaib seems to be a contradiction. Is she a secularist, and if so, why swear on a book at all? If she isn't a secularist, and she's devout, isn't her very presence a besmirchment on the US Congress as it would be her will to destroy it?

    We know her mind, and to date, she hasn't been shy about telling us all of the ways that she would otherwise destroy the institution in which she now finds herself...
     
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    So, Jefferson edited the NT, in order to separate the pearls from the dung. Did he also edit the Koran, and would he have had anything left to print out, if he had done that?
     
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    We don't even know if he read it.
    He had over 6,000 books in his library.
     
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    All Gods are men.
     
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    Some are women.
     
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    Christianity is democracy? Now that is hilarious
     
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    Assigning a sex to an all powerful and all knowing eternal 'god' seems off hand kind of pointless and silly.
     
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    As does the content of most religions.
     
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    Gods are men; Goddesses are women.

    1 Kings 11:33 (ERV) = *33 I will take the kingdom from Solomon because he stopped following me and began worshiping Ashtoreth, the goddess of Sidon; Chemosh, the god of Moab; and Milcom, the god of the Ammonites. Solomon stopped following my ways and doing what I say is right. He does not obey my laws and commands as his father David did.*
     

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